AP Poll Pre

Associated Press Poll

Year: 2018

7/1/2018

Preseason Poll

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	Alabama (42)	1,505	1
2	Clemson (18)	1,476	4
3	Georgia	1,350	2
4	Wisconsin (1)	1,271	7
5	Ohio State	1,256	5
6	Washington	1,215	16
7	Oklahoma	1,173	3
8	Miami	1,027	13
9	Auburn	1,013	10
10	Penn State	1,012	8
11	Michigan State	877	15
12	Notre Dame	804	11
13	Stanford	778	20
14	Michigan	773	NR
15	USC	543	12
16	TCU	533	9
17	West Virginia	511	NR
18	Mississippi State	450	19
19	Florida State	384	NR
20	Virginia Tech	351	24
21	UCF	312	6
22	Boise State	292	22
23	Texas	216	NR
24	Oregon	148	NR
25	LSU	106	18

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.