AP Poll 11/21

Associated Press Poll

Year: 2010

11/21/2010

Week 12

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	Oregon (37)	1,467	1
2	Auburn (13)	1,430	2
3	Boise State (10)	1,394	3
4	TCU	1,340	4
5	Wisconsin	1,196	6
6	LSU	1,194	5
7	Stanford	1,178	7
8	Ohio State	1,088	8
9	Alabama	972	10
10	Oklahoma State	958	12
11	Michigan State	927	11
12	Arkansas	861	13
13	Virginia Tech	720	14
14	Oklahoma	650	16
15	Missouri	639	15
16	Nebraska	618	9
17	Texas A&M	573	18
18	South Carolina	559	17
19	Nevada	439	19
20	Arizona	268	23
21	NC State	238	NR
22	Florida State	232	NR
23	Utah	211	25
24	Iowa	100	21
25	Mississippi State	94	22

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.