AP Poll 9/16

Associated Press Poll

Year: 2007

9/16/2007

Week 3

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	USC (46)	1,605	1
2	LSU (19)	1,577	2
3	Florida	1,437	5
4	Oklahoma	1,434	3
5	West Virginia	1,388	4
6	California	1,232	8
7	Texas	1,169	6
8	Ohio State	1,142	10
9	Wisconsin	1,111	7
10	Penn State	1,041	12
11	Rutgers	956	13
12	South Carolina	814	17
13	Oregon	810	19
14	Boston College	792	21
15	Clemson	615	20
16	Alabama	516	NR
17	Virginia Tech	458	18
18	Louisville	367	9
19	Hawaii	343	24
20	Texas A&M	342	25
21	Kentucky	338	NR
22	Georgia	333	23
23	South Florida	285	NR
24	Nebraska	277	14
25	Missouri	228	NR

Associated Press Poll
Started in 1936.

More Info

The Associated Press began running polls of sports writers to determine who is, by popular opinion, the best college football team in the country. The first AP Poll was run in 1934 but was not run continuously until 1936.

The AP Poll currently lists the top 25 teams in the nation. From 1936 to 1961 the poll only ranked the top 20 teams. From 1962 to 1967 it only ranked the top 10 teams. From 1968 to 1988 the AP Poll returned to ranking the top 20 teams. In 1989 they started ranking the top 25 teams.

The AP poll was used in the beginning of the BCS to calculate the team standings. Due to some controversies within the BCS, the AP Poll was pulled from these calculations which caused the BCS to create the new Harris Poll.