AP Poll 10/14

Associated Press Poll

Year: 2007

10/14/2007

Week 7

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	Ohio State (50)	1,599	3
2	South Florida (11)	1,503	5
3	Boston College (1)	1,448	4
4	Oklahoma (1)	1,399	6
5	LSU (1)	1,331	1
6	South Carolina	1,247	7
7	Oregon	1,177	9
8	Kentucky	1,098	17
9	West Virginia	1,090	8
10	California	1,065	2
11	Virginia Tech	951	12
12	Arizona State	948	14
13	USC	932	10
14	Florida	865	13
15	Kansas	664	20
15	Missouri	664	11
17	Hawaii	551	16
18	Auburn	488	22
19	Texas	348	23
20	Tennessee	339	25
21	Georgia	279	24
22	Texas Tech	241	NR
23	Cincinnati	194	15
24	Michigan	189	NR
25	Kansas State	107	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.