AP Poll 12/6

Associated Press Poll

Year: 2015

12/6/2015

Week 14

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	Clemson (51)	1,510	1
2	Alabama (9)	1,465	2
3	Michigan State (1)	1,382	5
4	Oklahoma	1,376	3
5	Stanford	1,221	7
6	Iowa	1,214	4
7	Ohio State	1,208	6
8	Notre Dame	1,070	9
9	Florida State	972	10
10	North Carolina	949	8
11	TCU	936	11
12	Northwestern	776	13
13	Oklahoma State	767	14
14	Houston	710	17
15	Oregon	685	15
16	Mississippi	656	16
17	Michigan	578	19
18	Baylor	426	12
19	Florida	420	18
20	Utah	323	21
21	Navy	271	22
22	LSU	270	23
23	Wisconsin	197	25
24	Temple	94	20
25	Western Kentucky	70	NR

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.