AP Poll 11/17

Associated Press Poll

Year: 2019

11/17/2019

Week 12

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	LSU (54)	1,542	1
2	Ohio State (5)	1,478	2
3	Clemson (3)	1,442	3
4	Georgia	1,343	5
5	Alabama	1,263	4
6	Oregon	1,243	6
7	Utah	1,155	8
8	Oklahoma	1,144	10
9	Penn State	1,030	9
10	Florida	984	11
11	Minnesota	902	7
12	Michigan	829	14
13	Baylor	787	12
14	Wisconsin	746	15
15	Notre Dame	676	16
16	Auburn	623	13
17	Cincinnati	536	17
18	Memphis	520	18
19	Iowa	493	23
20	Boise State	379	19
21	SMU	328	20
22	Oklahoma State	200	25
23	Appalachian State	154	NR
24	Texas A&M	132	NR
25	Virginia Tech	61	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.