AP Poll Final

Associated Press Poll

Year: 2010

1/11/2011

Week 15

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	Auburn (56)	1,472	1
2	TCU (3)	1,392	3
3	Oregon	1,379	2
4	Stanford	1,300	5
5	Ohio State	1,220	6
6	Oklahoma	1,108	9
7	Wisconsin	1,055	4
8	LSU	1,051	11
9	Boise State	1,031	10
10	Alabama	961	15
11	Nevada	866	13
12	Arkansas	863	8
13	Oklahoma State	833	16
14	Michigan State	696	7
15	Mississippi State	578	21
16	Virginia Tech	577	12
17	Florida State	502	23
18	Missouri	477	14
19	Texas A&M	359	18
20	Nebraska	334	17
21	UCF	225	NR
22	South Carolina	169	19
23	Maryland	144	NR
24	Tulsa	128	NR
25	NC State	119	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.