AP Poll 10/10

Associated Press Poll

Year: 2010

10/10/2010

Week 6

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	Ohio State (34)	1,453	2
2	Oregon (15)	1,427	3
3	Boise State (8)	1,395	4
4	TCU (1)	1,304	5
5	Nebraska	1,236	7
6	Oklahoma (2)	1,225	6
7	Auburn	1,104	8
8	Alabama	1,021	1
9	LSU	999	12
10	South Carolina	978	19
11	Utah	926	10
12	Arkansas	813	11
13	Michigan State	806	17
14	Stanford	732	16
15	Iowa	648	15
16	Florida State	547	23
17	Arizona	472	9
18	Wisconsin	410	20
19	Nevada	376	21
20	Oklahoma State	348	22
21	Missouri	298	24
22	Florida	209	14
23	Air Force	187	25
24	Oregon State	186	NR
25	West Virginia	141	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.