AP Poll 10/10

Associated Press Poll

Year: 1995

10/10/1995

Week 7

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	Florida State (40)	1,527	1
2	Nebraska (16)	1,490	2
3	Florida (2)	1,406	3
4	Ohio State (4)	1,386	5
5	USC	1,321	6
6	Tennessee	1,187	10
7	Auburn	1,177	11
8	Kansas State	1,044	13
9	Colorado	1,017	4
10	Kansas	895	24
11	Alabama	765	16
12	Michigan	809	7
13	Oklahoma	757	14
14	Northwestern	682	25
15	Oregon	663	17
16	Stanford	565	19
17	Notre Dame	508	23
18	Texas	490	20
19	Virginia	482	9
20	Penn State	447	12
21	Wisconsin	385	22
22	Texas A&M	360	8
23	Iowa	199	NR
24	Washington	103	15
25	Texas Tech	81	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.