AP Poll 11/22

Associated Press Poll

Year: 1994

11/22/1994

Week 13

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	Nebraska (39)	1,526	1
2	Penn State (22)	1,507	2
3	Alabama (1)	1,411	4
4	Florida	1,349	3
5	Miami	1,289	5
6	Colorado	1,257	7
7	Florida State	1,202	8
8	Texas A&M	1,076	9
9	Auburn	1,037	6
10	Colorado State	957	10
11	Kansas State	938	11
12	Oregon	924	12
13	Virginia	786	16
14	Ohio State	678	22
15	Utah	631	21
16	Arizona	539	19
17	USC	462	13
18	Virginia Tech	455	14
19	Mississippi State	436	23
20	Michigan	328	15
21	North Carolina	316	NR
22	Syracuse	187	NR
23	BYU	186	20
24	Washington State	166	NR
25	Boston College	145	17

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.