AP Poll 10/17

Associated Press Poll

Year: 2010

10/17/2010

Week 7

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	Oregon (39)	1,471	2
2	Boise State (15)	1,433	3
3	Oklahoma (3)	1,355	6
4	TCU (3)	1,340	4
5	Auburn	1,279	7
6	LSU	1,132	9
7	Alabama	1,121	8
8	Michigan State	1,062	13
9	Utah	1,019	11
10	Wisconsin	920	18
11	Ohio State	895	1
12	Stanford	828	14
13	Iowa	768	15
14	Nebraska	684	5
15	Arizona	619	17
16	Florida State	615	16
17	Oklahoma State	575	20
18	Missouri	552	21
19	South Carolina	372	10
20	West Virginia	346	25
21	Arkansas	343	12
22	Texas	267	NR
23	Virginia Tech	122	NR
24	Mississippi State	111	NR
25	Miami	85	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.