AP Poll 11/14

Associated Press Poll

Year: 1995

11/14/1995

Week 12

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	Nebraska (45)	1,530	1
2	Ohio State (12)	1,476	2
3	Florida (5)	1,458	3
4	Tennessee	1,350	4
5	Northwestern	1,295	5
6	Florida State	1,239	6
7	Kansas State	1,172	7
8	Notre Dame	1,105	8
9	Colorado	963	9
10	Texas	950	11
11	USC	885	12
12	Michigan	772	13
13	Virginia	743	14
14	Arkansas	725	15
15	Kansas	685	10
16	Oregon	649	17
17	Alabama	617	16
18	Texas A&M	521	18
19	Penn State	438	19
20	Virginia Tech	413	21
21	Auburn	405	20
22	Washington	275	22
23	Syracuse	147	23
24	Clemson	122	24
25	Miami	53	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.