AP Poll 10/24

Associated Press Poll

Year: 2010

10/24/2010

Week 8

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	Oregon (44)	1,480	1
2	Boise State (11)	1,419	2
3	Auburn (3)	1,376	5
4	TCU (2)	1,354	4
5	Michigan State	1,175	8
6	Alabama	1,173	7
7	Missouri	1,121	18
8	Utah	1,098	9
9	Wisconsin	1,022	10
10	Ohio State	931	11
11	Oklahoma	861	3
12	LSU	831	6
13	Stanford	830	12
14	Nebraska	760	14
15	Arizona	691	15
16	Florida State	606	16
17	South Carolina	476	19
18	Iowa	468	13
19	Arkansas	435	21
20	Oklahoma State	336	17
21	Virginia Tech	270	23
22	Miami	229	25
23	Mississippi State	221	24
24	USC	172	NR
25	Baylor	56	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.