AP Poll 9/19

Associated Press Poll

Year: 1995

9/19/1995

Week 4

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	Florida State (36)	1,519	1
2	Nebraska (19)	1,488	2
3	Texas A&M (5)	1,386	3
4	Florida (2)	1,375	4
5	USC	1,262	6
6	Penn State	1,218	7
7	Colorado	1,168	9
8	Ohio State	1,166	10
9	Michigan	1,095	11
10	Oklahoma	854	14
11	Virginia	824	16
12	Oregon	823	20
13	Texas	811	15
14	Auburn	803	5
15	Tennessee	739	8
16	UCLA	562	12
17	Miami	463	19
18	LSU	390	NR
19	Kansas State	372	22
20	Georgia	368	23
21	Notre Dame	270	24
22	Washington	269	18
23	Alabama	262	13
24	Maryland	127	NR
25	Arizona	116	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.