AP Poll Final

Associated Press Poll

Year: 1994

1/5/1995

Week 16

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	Nebraska (52)	1,540	1
2	Penn State (11)	1,498	2
3	Colorado	1,410	4
4	Florida State	1,320	7
5	Alabama	1,312	6
6	Miami	1,249	3
7	Florida	1,153	5
8	Texas A&M	1,117	8
9	Auburn	1,110	9
10	Utah	955	14
11	Oregon	810	12
12	Michigan	732	20
13	USC	691	21
14	Ohio State	672	13
15	Virginia	648	18
16	Colorado State	630	10
17	NC State	511	23
18	BYU	500	22
19	Kansas State	496	11
20	Arizona	364	15
21	Washington State	344	24
22	Tennessee	303	NR
23	Boston College	236	NR
24	Mississippi State	160	16
25	Texas	90	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.