AP Poll Pre

Associated Press Poll

Year: 2017

7/1/2017

Preseason Poll

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	Alabama (52)	1,513	2
2	Ohio State (3)	1,414	6
3	Florida State (4)	1,396	8
4	USC (2)	1,325	3
5	Clemson	1,201	1
6	Penn State	1,196	7
7	Oklahoma	1,170	5
8	Washington	1,150	4
9	Wisconsin	926	9
10	Oklahoma State	889	11
11	Michigan	881	10
12	Auburn	880	24
13	LSU	784	13
14	Stanford	695	12
15	Georgia	690	NR
16	Louisville	629	21
17	Florida	624	14
18	Miami	492	20
19	South Florida	327	19
20	Kansas State	317	NR
21	Virginia Tech	240	16
22	West Virginia	207	18
23	Texas	173	NR
24	Washington State	133	NR
25	Tennessee	114	22

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.