AP Poll 11/7

Associated Press Poll

Year: 1995

11/7/1995

Week 11

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	Nebraska (45)	1,530	1
2	Ohio State (12)	1,470	4
3	Florida (5)	1,464	3
4	Tennessee	1,346	5
5	Northwestern	1,288	6
6	Florida State	1,241	2
7	Kansas State	1,165	9
8	Notre Dame	1,095	8
9	Colorado	954	10
10	Kansas	940	11
11	Texas	913	13
12	USC	836	14
13	Michigan	744	7
14	Virginia	698	24
15	Arkansas	679	18
16	Alabama	641	16
17	Oregon	619	19
18	Texas A&M	562	17
19	Penn State	442	12
20	Auburn	419	21
21	Virginia Tech	378	NR
22	Washington	227	15
23	Syracuse	85	20
24	Clemson	73	NR
25	San Diego State	62	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.