AP Poll 9/29

Associated Press Poll

Year: 2019

9/29/2019

Week 5

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	Alabama (29)	1,478	2
2	Clemson (18)	1,426	1
3	Georgia (4)	1,375	3
4	Ohio State (7)	1,324	5
5	LSU	1,322	4
6	Oklahoma	1,264	6
7	Auburn (3)	1,186	7
8	Wisconsin	1,046	8
9	Notre Dame	996	10
10	Florida	986	9
11	Texas	919	11
12	Penn State	878	12
13	Oregon	817	13
14	Iowa	731	14
15	Washington	603	17
16	Boise State	559	16
17	Utah	534	19
18	UCF	352	22
19	Michigan	350	20
20	Arizona State	249	NR
21	Oklahoma State	215	NR
22	Wake Forest	190	NR
23	Virginia	186	18
24	SMU	151	NR
25	Michigan State	147	25
25	Texas A&M	147	23

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.