Inaugural AP polls | |
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Div I/FBS football | 1936 |
Div I/FCS football | 1978 |
Div I men's basketball | 1948–49 |
Div I women's basketball | 1976–77 |
Current AP polls | |
FBS football | 2024 season |
FCS football | 2024 season |
Div I men's basketball | 2024–25 season |
Div I women's basketball | 2024–25 season |
The Associated Press poll (AP poll) provides weekly rankings of the top 25 NCAA teams in one of three Division I college sports: football, men's basketball and women's basketball. The rankings are compiled by polling 62 sportswriters and broadcasters from across the nation.[1] Each voter provides their own ranking of the top 25 teams, and the individual rankings are then combined to produce the national ranking by giving a team 25 points for a first place vote, 24 for a second place vote, and so on down to 1 point for a twenty-fifth place vote. Ballots of the voting members in the AP poll are publicized.[2]