AP Poll 11/21

Associated Press Poll

Year: 1995

11/21/1995

Week 13

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	Nebraska (44)	1,529	1
2	Ohio State (13)	1,477	2
3	Florida (5)	1,458	3
4	Northwestern	1,326	5
5	Tennessee	1,315	4
6	Florida State	1,262	6
7	Notre Dame	1,152	8
8	Colorado	1,108	9
9	Texas	1,043	10
10	Kansas State	934	7
11	Kansas	847	15
12	Oregon	818	16
13	Virginia Tech	743	20
14	Penn State	729	19
15	Texas A&M	684	18
16	Auburn	643	21
17	USC	528	11
18	Michigan	476	12
19	Virginia	390	13
20	Washington	358	22
21	Alabama	288	17
22	Syracuse	286	23
23	Arkansas	243	14
24	Clemson	217	24
25	Miami	107	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.