AP Poll 10/18

Associated Press Poll

Year: 1994

10/18/1994

Week 8

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	Penn State (19)	1,487	3
2	Colorado (15)	1,474	4
3	Nebraska (25)	1,463	2
4	Auburn (3)	1,402	6
5	Florida	1,196	1
6	Texas A&M	1,188	7
7	Miami	1,131	8
8	Alabama	1,130	10
9	Washington	1,128	9
10	Florida State	1,021	11
11	Michigan	937	5
12	Colorado State	826	13
13	Texas	817	12
14	Arizona	764	14
15	North Carolina	717	15
16	Syracuse	561	18
17	Virginia Tech	535	19
18	Utah	414	21
19	Kansas State	391	16
20	Duke	316	25
21	BYU	258	NR
22	Boston College	227	24
23	Washington State	209	20
24	Ohio State	102	NR
25	Virginia	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.