AP Poll 9/21

Associated Press Poll

Year: 2014

9/21/2014

Week 4

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	Florida State (34)	1,439	1
2	Oregon (12)	1,400	2
3	Alabama (6)	1,377	3
4	Oklahoma (4)	1,343	4
5	Auburn	1,268	5
6	Texas A&M (4)	1,232	6
7	Baylor	1,143	7
8	Notre Dame	967	9
9	Michigan State	905	11
10	Mississippi	889	10
11	UCLA	806	12
12	Georgia	789	13
13	South Carolina	764	14
14	Mississippi State	706	NR
15	Arizona State	702	15
16	Stanford	564	16
17	LSU	541	8
18	USC	459	17
19	Wisconsin	451	19
20	BYU	376	21
21	Nebraska	296	24
22	Ohio State	196	23
23	East Carolina	180	NR
24	Oklahoma State	132	25
25	Kansas State	131	20

Associated Press Poll
Started in 1936.

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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.