AP Poll 10/25

Associated Press Poll

Year: 1994

10/25/1994

Week 9

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	Penn State (19)	1,486	1
2	Colorado (16)	1,482	2
3	Nebraska (24)	1,461	3
4	Auburn (3)	1,397	4
5	Florida	1,246	5
6	Miami	1,187	7
7	Texas A&M	1,171	6
8	Alabama	1,165	8
9	Florida State	1,076	10
10	Michigan	998	11
11	Arizona	890	14
12	Utah	831	18
13	Virginia Tech	709	17
14	Syracuse	703	16
15	Washington	591	9
16	Duke	564	20
17	Colorado State	543	12
18	Virginia	484	25
19	Texas	409	13
20	BYU	363	21
21	Ohio State	330	24
22	Washington State	306	23
23	Kansas State	269	19
24	North Carolina	204	15
25	USC	91	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.