| Inaugural AP polls | |
|---|---|
| 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]
- ^ Associated Press voters 2013 retrieved 2 January 2014 Archived 15 May 2013 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ "AP College Poll Voters [Football]". Associated Press. Archived from the original on February 25, 2009.