AP Poll 10/7

Associated Press Poll

Year: 1991

10/7/1991

Week 6

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	Florida State (58)	1,498	1
2	Miami (1)	1,416	2
3	Washington (1)	1,404	3
4	Tennessee	1,298	4
5	Michigan	1,213	7
6	Oklahoma	1,208	5
7	Notre Dame	1,129	8
8	Baylor	1,083	11
9	Penn State	991	12
10	Florida	895	13
11	Ohio State	860	14
12	Pittsburgh	692	17
13	California	689	18
14	Nebraska	687	15
15	Syracuse	653	10
16	NC State	638	19
17	Iowa	607	9
18	Clemson	579	6
19	Alabama	439	20
20	Illinois	372	22
21	Texas A&M	303	23
22	Georgia	287	NR
23	Mississippi	112	NR
24	Auburn	105	16
25	Colorado	92	25

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.