Associated Press 2021 Week 2 Football Bowl Subdivision Top 25 Poll Includes One Big 12 Team, Two Big 12 Traitors

The 2021 Associated Press Week 2 Football Bowl Subdivision Top 25 Poll includes one Big 12 team, Iowa State (#9) and two Big 12 traitors, Oklahoma (#4) and Texas (#15). 

Big 12 teams TCU, Oklahoma State and Kansas State are listed among "others receiving votes." TCU (80 points) is in 26th place. Oklahoma State (39 points) is in 32nd place. Kansas State (13 points) is in 36th place.

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This season marks the 86th edition of the AP rankings.

The Associated Press began its college football poll on October 19, 1936. It is the longest-running poll of those that award national titles at the end of the season. The preseason poll was started in 1950. A panel of 60 sports writers and broadcasters from around the country votes on the poll weekly. The AP Top 25 is determined by a simple points system based on how each voter ranks the teams. A team receives 25 points for each first- place vote, 24 for second place and so on through to the 25th team, which receives one point. The rankings are set by listing the point totals from highest to lowest. 

Here is the 2021 Week 2 AP College Football Top 25 poll (first-place votes in parenthesis):

1. Alabama, 1-0 (59 first-place votes) (1571 total points)
2. Georgia, 1-0 (4) (1507)
3. Ohio State, 1-0 (1437)
4. Oklahoma, 1-0 (1374)
5. Texas A&M, 1-0 (1288)
6. Clemson, 0-1 (1231) 
7. Cincinnati, 1-0 (1136)
8. Notre Dame, 1-0 (1070)
9. Iowa State, 1-0 (1045)
10. Iowa, 1-0 (942)
11. Penn State, 1-0 (908)
12. Oregon, 1-0 (883)
13. Florida, 1-0 (842)
14. USC, 1-0 (789)
15. Texas, 1-0 (683)
16. UCLA, 2-0 (668)
17. Coastal Carolina, 1-0 (384)
18. Wisconsin, 0-1 (376)
19. Virginia Tech, 1-0 (359)
20. Ole Miss, 1-0 (335)
21. Utah, 1-0 (334)
22. Miami, 0-1 (229)
23. Arizona State, 1-0 (222)
24. North Carolina, 0-1 (198)
25. Auburn, 1-0 (83)

Others receiving votes: TCU 80, NC State 69, UCF 61, Liberty 57, LSU 57, Michigan 52, Oklahoma State 39, Indiana 37, Michigan State 28, Nevada 23, Kansas State 13, Louisiana 12, BYU 10, Boston College 8, Ball State 7, Maryland 6, Arizona 5, UAB 5, Florida State 4, Kentucky 3, Texas Tech 2, Army 2, Appalachian State 1