AP Poll 10/29

Associated Press Poll

Year: 2017

10/29/2017

Week 9

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	Alabama (59)	1,523	1
2	Georgia (2)	1,465	3
3	Ohio State	1,332	6
4	Wisconsin	1,256	5
5	Notre Dame	1,254	9
6	Clemson	1,196	7
7	Penn State	1,189	2
8	Oklahoma	1,147	10
9	Miami	1,075	8
10	TCU	942	4
11	Oklahoma State	936	11
12	Washington	874	12
13	Virginia Tech	837	13
14	Iowa State	670	25
15	UCF	654	18
16	Auburn	576	19
17	USC	562	21
18	Stanford	434	20
19	LSU	338	23
20	NC State	333	14
21	Mississippi State	279	NR
22	Memphis	270	24
23	Arizona	204	NR
24	Michigan State	136	16
25	Washington State	122	15

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.