AP Poll 10/11

Associated Press Poll

Year: 2009

10/11/2009

Week 6

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	Florida (50)	1,490	1
2	Alabama (10)	1,430	3
3	Texas	1,395	2
4	Virginia Tech	1,283	5
5	Boise State	1,199	6
6	USC	1,161	7
7	Ohio State	1,048	9
8	Cincinnati	1,038	8
9	Miami	970	11
10	LSU	947	4
11	Iowa	919	12
12	TCU	917	10
13	Oregon	776	13
14	Penn State	597	14
15	Nebraska	576	21
16	Oklahoma State	559	15
17	Kansas	551	16
18	BYU	490	18
19	Georgia Tech	453	22
20	Oklahoma	432	19
21	South Florida	330	23
22	South Carolina	319	25
23	Houston	192	NR
24	Utah	76	NR
25	Notre Dame	75	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.