AP Poll 9/26

Associated Press Poll

Year: 1995

9/26/1995

Week 5

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	Florida State (42)	1,528	1
2	Nebraska (18)	1,498	2
3	Florida (2)	1,399	4
4	Colorado	1,315	7
5	USC	1,293	5
6	Penn State	1,247	6
7	Ohio State	1,220	8
8	Michigan	1,123	9
9	Texas A&M	1,012	3
10	Oklahoma	957	10
11	Virginia	929	11
12	Tennessee	851	15
13	Auburn	810	14
14	LSU	705	18
15	Notre Dame	623	21
16	Kansas State	601	19
17	Maryland	453	24
18	Washington	396	22
19	Oregon	379	12
20	Alabama	339	23
21	Texas	328	13
22	Stanford	264	NR
23	Arkansas	240	NR
24	Texas Tech	146	NR
25	Kansas	118	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.