AP Poll 11/15

Associated Press Poll

Year: 1994

11/15/1994

Week 12

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	Nebraska (39)	1,527	1
2	Penn State (23)	1,509	2
3	Florida	1,351	4
4	Alabama	1,332	6
5	Miami	1,285	5
6	Auburn	1,240	3
7	Colorado	1,237	7
8	Florida State	1,176	8
9	Texas A&M	1,024	9
10	Colorado State	927	10
11	Kansas State	870	11
12	Oregon	856	15
13	USC	821	17
14	Virginia Tech	741	16
15	Michigan	686	19
16	Virginia	528	21
17	Boston College	477	25
18	Washington	434	22
19	Arizona	334	13
20	BYU	303	23
21	Utah	302	12
22	Ohio State	238	NR
23	Mississippi State	230	20
24	Duke	204	18
25	NC State	174	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.