AP Poll 10/12

Associated Press Poll

Year: 1993

10/12/1993

Week 7

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	Florida State (61)	1,549	1
2	Alabama (1)	1,480	2
3	Notre Dame	1,413	4
4	Florida	1,365	5
5	Ohio State	1,245	6
6	Nebraska	1,169	7
7	Penn State	1,163	8
8	Miami	1,156	3
9	Oklahoma	1,073	10
10	Tennessee	1,021	11
11	Arizona	957	12
12	Washington	828	13
13	Texas A&M	809	14
14	North Carolina	697	15
15	Virginia	613	18
16	Wisconsin	556	21
17	West Virginia	470	24
18	Michigan	451	9
19	Auburn	426	22
20	Colorado	408	20
21	California	346	16
22	UCLA	287	25
23	Louisville	212	17
24	Syracuse	178	23
25	Michigan State	142	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.