AP Poll 9/28

Associated Press Poll

Year: 1993

9/28/1993

Week 5

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	Florida State (58)	1,545	1
2	Alabama (4)	1,482	2
3	Miami	1,414	3
4	Notre Dame	1,361	4
5	Florida	1,297	5
6	Nebraska	1,180	6
7	Ohio State	1,157	7
8	Michigan	1,077	8
9	Penn State	1,058	9
10	Oklahoma	1,006	10
11	Tennessee	943	11
12	Arizona	782	15
13	Syracuse	750	12
14	Texas A&M	718	14
15	Washington	688	16
16	North Carolina	648	18
17	California	514	20
18	Louisville	429	24
19	Colorado	426	13
20	BYU	415	21
21	Virginia	390	22
22	Wisconsin	338	23
23	Auburn	188	25
24	NC State	73	19
25	West Virginia	71	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.