AP Poll 10/7

Associated Press Poll

Year: 2007

10/7/2007

Week 6

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	LSU (65)	1,625	1
2	California	1,538	3
3	Ohio State	1,511	4
4	Boston College	1,346	7
5	South Florida	1,339	6
6	Oklahoma	1,221	10
7	South Carolina	1,183	11
8	West Virginia	1,059	13
9	Oregon	1,047	14
10	USC	1,024	2
11	Missouri	966	17
12	Virginia Tech	910	15
13	Florida	822	9
14	Arizona State	752	18
15	Cincinnati	705	20
16	Hawaii	634	16
17	Kentucky	612	8
18	Illinois	595	NR
19	Wisconsin	551	5
20	Kansas	336	NR
21	Florida State	307	NR
22	Auburn	248	NR
23	Texas	136	19
24	Georgia	131	12
25	Tennessee	90	NR

Associated Press Poll
Started in 1936.

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The Associated Press began running polls of sports writers to determine who is, by popular opinion, the best college football team in the country. The first AP Poll was run in 1934 but was not run continuously until 1936.

The AP Poll currently lists the top 25 teams in the nation. From 1936 to 1961 the poll only ranked the top 20 teams. From 1962 to 1967 it only ranked the top 10 teams. From 1968 to 1988 the AP Poll returned to ranking the top 20 teams. In 1989 they started ranking the top 25 teams.

The AP poll was used in the beginning of the BCS to calculate the team standings. Due to some controversies within the BCS, the AP Poll was pulled from these calculations which caused the BCS to create the new Harris Poll.