AP Poll 10/24

Associated Press Poll

Year: 1995

10/24/1995

Week 9

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	Florida State (34)	1,512	1
2	Nebraska (20)	1,495	2
3	Florida (3)	1,421	3
4	Ohio State (5)	1,400	4
5	Tennessee	1,273	6
6	Kansas	1,244	7
7	Colorado	1,143	9
8	Northwestern	1,087	11
9	Michigan	1,035	10
10	Oregon	941	12
11	Auburn	889	13
12	Notre Dame	846	17
13	USC	828	5
14	Kansas State	700	8
15	Texas	695	16
16	Penn State	636	19
17	Washington	512	20
18	Alabama	446	21
19	Texas A&M	390	22
20	Virginia	288	14
21	Syracuse	255	NR
22	Texas Tech	237	25
23	Oklahoma	231	15
24	UCLA	219	NR
25	Iowa	212	18

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.