AP Top 25: Alabama Holds Firm in Top Spot, But Week 2 Sees Big Shakeups

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Alabama still leads the AP Top 25 Poll, but UCLA and ISC fell out of the lineup to leave Stanford, Washington and Oregon as the only PAC-12 remaining NCAA Football teams. The Associated Press began its college football poll on October 19, 1936 and it is now the longest-running survey of those that award national titles at the end of the season.

The preseason weekly poll was started in 1950 and is comprised of a panel of 61 sports writers and broadcasters nationwide. All participants have an extensive background in covering college football.

Check out the AP Table below and, below that, read about the AP Top 25 Poll methodology. See who voted how and when by routinely visiting PPD or the AP Top 25 Poll page.

(###) Number of first place votes


1	Alabama (54) SEC Record: 1-0	PV Rank 1 Points 1,518
2	Clemson (2) ACC Record: 1-0	2 1,416
3	Florida State (4) ACC Record: 1-0	4 1,413
4	Ohio State Big Ten Record: 1-0	6 1,324
5	Michigan (1) Big Ten Record: 1-0	7 1,261
6	Houston The American Record: 1-0	15 1,243
7	Stanford Pac-12 Record: 1-0	8 1,140
8	Washington Pac-12 Record: 1-0	14 884
9	Georgia SEC Record: 1-0	18 877
10	Wisconsin Big Ten Record: 1-0	– 759
11	Texas Big 12 Record: 1-0	– 743
12	Michigan State Big Ten Record: 1-0	12 722
13	Louisville ACC Record: 1-0	19 686
14	Oklahoma Big 12 Record: 0-1	3 664
15	TCU Big 12 Record: 1-0	13 635
16	Iowa Big Ten Record: 1-0	17 588
17	Tennessee SEC Record: 1-0	9 573
18	Notre Dame Division I FBS Independents Record: 0-1	10 528
19	Mississippi SEC Record: 0-1	11 493
20	Texas A&M SEC Record: 1-0	– 477
21	LSU SEC Record: 0-1	5 423
22	Oklahoma State Big 12 Record: 1-0	21 409
23	Baylor Big 12 Record: 1-0	23 296
24	Oregon Pac-12 Record: 1-0	24 242
25	Miami (FL) ACC Record: 1-0	– 137