AP Poll 10/20

Associated Press Poll

Year: 2019

10/20/2019

Week 8

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	Alabama (24)	1,486	1
2	LSU (16)	1,462	2
3	Ohio State (13)	1,429	4
4	Clemson (9)	1,408	3
5	Oklahoma	1,343	5
6	Penn State	1,224	7
7	Florida	1,138	9
8	Notre Dame	1,058	8
9	Auburn	1,054	11
10	Georgia	1,031	10
11	Oregon	979	12
12	Utah	852	13
13	Wisconsin	767	6
14	Baylor	732	18
15	Texas	627	15
16	SMU	587	19
17	Minnesota	577	20
18	Cincinnati	468	21
19	Michigan	440	16
20	Iowa	347	23
21	Appalachian State	286	24
22	Boise State	225	14
23	Iowa State	185	NR
24	Arizona State	134	17
25	Wake Forest	118	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.