AP Poll 12/6

Associated Press Poll

Year: 1994

12/6/1994

Week 15

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	Nebraska (38)	1,526	1
2	Penn State (24)	1,511	2
3	Miami	1,398	4
4	Colorado	1,345	5
5	Florida	1,313	6
6	Alabama	1,217	3
7	Florida State	1,211	7
8	Texas A&M	1,081	8
9	Auburn	1,059	9
10	Colorado State	968	10
11	Kansas State	943	11
12	Oregon	916	12
13	Ohio State	751	13
14	Utah	700	14
15	Arizona	625	15
16	Mississippi State	560	16
17	Virginia Tech	486	17
18	Virginia	416	19
19	North Carolina	402	18
20	Michigan	372	20
21	USC	355	21
22	BYU	237	22
23	NC State	222	23
24	Washington State	186	24
25	Duke	99	25

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.