AP Poll 10/31

Associated Press Poll

Year: 1995

10/31/1995

Week 10

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	Nebraska (23)	1,501	2
2	Florida State (31)	1,498	1
3	Florida (2)	1,417	3
4	Ohio State (6)	1,412	4
5	Tennessee	1,299	5
6	Northwestern	1,216	8
7	Michigan	1,180	9
8	Notre Dame	1,042	12
9	Kansas State	1,038	14
10	Colorado	860	7
11	Kansas	833	6
12	Penn State	828	16
13	Texas	764	15
14	USC	759	13
15	Washington	554	17
16	Alabama	544	18
17	Texas A&M	512	19
18	Arkansas	487	NR
19	Oregon	457	10
20	Syracuse	354	21
21	Auburn	330	11
22	UCLA	328	24
23	Texas Tech	307	22
24	Virginia	305	20
25	Oklahoma	172	23

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.