AP Poll 11/8

Associated Press Poll

Year: 1994

11/8/1994

Week 11

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	Nebraska (39)	1,525	1
2	Penn State (22)	1,507	2
3	Auburn (1)	1,430	3
4	Florida	1,321	4
5	Miami	1,283	5
6	Alabama	1,239	6
7	Colorado	1,194	7
8	Florida State	1,163	8
9	Texas A&M	1,016	11
10	Colorado State	846	14
11	Kansas State	825	15
12	Utah	696	9
13	Arizona	686	18
14	Syracuse	650	10
15	Oregon	647	21
16	Virginia Tech	641	17
17	USC	632	22
18	Duke	614	23
19	Michigan	603	20
20	Mississippi State	327	24
21	Virginia	301	13
22	Washington	249	12
23	BYU	174	25
24	Washington State	163	16
25	Boston College	122	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.