AP Poll 10/5

Associated Press Poll

Year: 1993

10/5/1993

Week 6

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	Florida State (61)	1,548	1
2	Alabama (1)	1,473	2
3	Miami	1,407	3
4	Notre Dame	1,368	4
5	Florida	1,285	5
6	Ohio State	1,203	7
7	Nebraska	1,140	6
8	Penn State	1,091	9
9	Michigan	1,040	8
10	Oklahoma	989	10
11	Tennessee	948	11
12	Arizona	914	12
13	Washington	746	15
14	Texas A&M	742	14
15	North Carolina	584	16
16	California	571	17
17	Louisville	553	18
18	Virginia	460	21
19	BYU	455	20
20	Colorado	394	19
21	Wisconsin	380	22
22	Auburn	258	23
23	Syracuse	214	13
24	West Virginia	209	25
25	UCLA	52	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.