AP Poll 10/17

Associated Press Poll

Year: 1995

10/17/1995

Week 8

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	Florida State (38)	1,520	1
2	Nebraska (16)	1,487	2
3	Florida (3)	1,421	3
4	Ohio State (5)	1,388	4
5	USC	1,310	5
6	Tennessee	1,234	6
7	Kansas	1,087	10
8	Kansas State	1,086	8
9	Colorado	1,085	9
10	Michigan	930	12
11	Northwestern	917	14
12	Oregon	841	15
13	Auburn	828	7
14	Virginia	621	19
15	Oklahoma	611	13
16	Texas	527	18
17	Notre Dame	465	17
18	Iowa	454	23
19	Penn State	448	20
20	Washington	384	24
21	Alabama	328	11
22	Texas A&M	217	22
23	Stanford	205	16
24	Wisconsin	156	21
25	Texas Tech	144	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.