AP Poll 11/7

Associated Press Poll

Year: 2010

11/7/2010

Week 10

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	Oregon (49)	1,484	1
2	Auburn (2)	1,396	3
3	TCU (2)	1,391	4
4	Boise State (7)	1,366	2
5	LSU	1,196	12
6	Wisconsin	1,182	7
7	Stanford	1,143	10
8	Ohio State	1,087	8
9	Nebraska	1,055	9
10	Michigan State	868	16
11	Alabama	861	5
12	Oklahoma State	821	19
13	Iowa	807	15
14	Arkansas	775	17
15	Utah	657	6
16	Virginia Tech	540	20
17	Mississippi State	501	21
18	Arizona	481	13
19	Oklahoma	436	11
20	Missouri	420	14
21	Nevada	304	25
22	South Carolina	170	18
23	Texas A&M	130	NR
24	Florida	94	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.