Associated Press 2022 Week 12 Football Bowl Subdivision Top 25 Poll: TCU Fourth

 

The 2022 Associated Press Week 12 Football Bowl Subdivision Top 25 Poll includes three Big 12 teams, TCU  (#4, with 1,374 points), Kansas State (#19, with 468 points) and Oklahoma State (#24, with 85 points). 

Big 12 traitor Texas is among teams "receiving votes." The Longhorns are 27th, with 65 points.

Access the preseason poll: here

This season marks the 87th 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 63 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 2022 Week 12 AP College Football Top 25 poll (first-place votes in parenthesis):

1) Georgia, 10-0 (62) (1,574)
2) Ohio State, 10-0 (1) (1,501)
3) Michigan, 10-0 (1,453)
4) TCU, 10-0 (1,374)
5) Tennessee 9-1 (1,341)
6) LSU, 8-2 (1,218)
7) USC, 9-1 (1,152)
8) Alabama, 8-2 (1,140)
9) Clemson, 9-1 (1,055)
10) Utah, 8-2 (965)
11) Penn State, 8-2 (882)
12) Oregon, 8-2 (856)
13) North Carolina, 9-1 (843)
14) Mississippi, 8-2 (797)
15) Washington, 82 (693)
16) UCLA, 8-2 (648)
17) Central Florida, 8-2 (537)
18) Notre Dame, 7-3 (495)
19) Kansas State, 7-3 (468)
20) Florida State, 7-3 (386)
21) Tulane, 8-2 (273)
22) Cincinnati, 8-2 (237)
23) Coastal Carolina, 9-1 (143)
24) Oklahoma State, 7-3 (85)
25) Oregon State, 7-3 (81)

Others receiving votes: North Carolina State 77, Texas 65, UTSA 51, Troy 22, Duke 16, Liberty 15, Illinois 13, Minnesota 7, Florida 6, Boise State 5, South Alabama 1.