AP Poll 8/31

Associated Press Poll

Year: 1994

8/31/1994

Week 1

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	Florida (14)	1,456	1
2	Nebraska (23)	1,449	4
3	Notre Dame (12)	1,417	2
4	Florida State (8)	1,352	3
5	Michigan (1)	1,254	5
6	Miami (1)	1,201	6
7	Arizona (2)	1,146	7
8	Colorado	1,075	8
9	Penn State	1,007	9
10	Wisconsin	937	10
11	Alabama (1)	921	12
12	Auburn	904	11
13	Tennessee	812	13
14	UCLA	667	14
15	Texas A&M	577	15
16	Oklahoma	553	16
17	USC	545	17
18	North Carolina	523	19
19	Texas	503	18
20	Ohio State	457	20
21	Virginia Tech	258	22
22	Illinois	249	21
23	Washington	186	23
24	Clemson	114	25
25	Stanford	95	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.