AP Poll Final

Associated Press Poll

Year: 1995

1/5/1996

Week 16

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	Nebraska (62)	1,550	1
2	Florida	1,474	2
3	Tennessee	1,428	5
4	Florida State	1,311	8
5	Colorado	1,309	7
6	Ohio State	1,161	4
7	Kansas State	1,147	10
8	Northwestern	1,124	3
9	Kansas	1,029	11
10	Virginia Tech	1,015	13
11	Notre Dame	931	6
12	USC	886	17
13	Penn State	867	15
14	Texas	724	9
15	Texas A&M	661	19
16	Virginia	603	18
17	Michigan	475	14
18	Oregon	416	12
19	Syracuse	382	NR
20	Miami	352	22
21	Alabama	313	21
22	Auburn	276	16
23	Texas Tech	197	NR
24	Toledo	170	25
25	Iowa	134	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.