AP Poll 9/30

Associated Press Poll

Year: 2007

9/30/2007

Week 5

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	LSU (33)	1,593	2
2	USC (32)	1,591	1
3	California	1,475	6
4	Ohio State	1,420	8
5	Wisconsin	1,271	9
6	South Florida	1,203	18
7	Boston College	1,172	12
8	Kentucky	1,143	14
9	Florida	1,031	4
10	Oklahoma	992	3
11	South Carolina	900	16
12	Georgia	885	15
13	West Virginia	861	5
14	Oregon	837	11
15	Virginia Tech	639	17
16	Hawaii	586	19
17	Missouri	561	20
18	Arizona State	497	23
19	Texas	449	7
20	Cincinnati	377	24
21	Rutgers	299	10
22	Clemson	265	13
23	Purdue	218	NR
24	Kansas State	214	NR
25	Nebraska	198	25

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.