AP Poll Final

Associated Press Poll

Year: 1993

1/5/1994

Week 16

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	Florida State (46)	1,532	1
2	Notre Dame (12)	1,478	4
3	Nebraska	1,418	2
4	Auburn (4)	1,375	5
5	Florida	1,307	8
6	Wisconsin	1,228	9
7	West Virginia	1,090	3
8	Penn State	1,074	13
9	Texas A&M	1,043	7
10	Arizona	992	16
11	Ohio State	971	11
12	Tennessee	870	6
13	Boston College	817	15
14	Alabama	685	18
15	Miami	611	10
16	Colorado	574	17
17	Oklahoma	521	19
18	UCLA	460	14
19	North Carolina	447	12
20	Kansas State	444	20
21	Michigan	397	23
22	Virginia Tech	321	22
23	Clemson	164	24
24	Louisville	159	26
25	California	79	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.