AP Poll 11/28

Associated Press Poll

Year: 2010

11/28/2010

Week 13

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	Oregon (36)	1,475	1
2	Auburn (23)	1,456	2
3	TCU (1)	1,383	4
4	Wisconsin	1,289	5
5	Stanford	1,283	7
6	Ohio State	1,184	8
7	Michigan State	1,098	11
8	Arkansas	1,094	12
9	Boise State	908	3
10	Oklahoma	886	14
11	LSU	856	6
12	Virginia Tech	761	13
13	Nebraska	740	16
14	Nevada	736	19
15	Missouri	691	15
16	Oklahoma State	599	10
17	Alabama	597	9
18	South Carolina	591	18
19	Texas A&M	582	17
20	Florida State	356	22
21	Utah	249	23
22	Mississippi State	224	25
23	West Virginia	147	NR
24	Northern Illinois	130	NR
25	Hawaii	43	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.