AP Poll 10/7

Associated Press Poll

Year: 1996

10/7/1996

Week 7

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	Florida (38)	1,643	1
2	Ohio State (24)	1,609	3
3	Florida State (4)	1,557	2
4	Arizona State (1)	1,471	5
5	Nebraska	1,374	7
6	Miami	1,312	8
7	Tennessee	1,243	9
8	Alabama	1,052	13
9	Colorado	1,019	10
10	Penn State	995	4
11	Notre Dame	988	11
12	LSU	977	14
13	North Carolina	910	15
14	Michigan	863	6
15	Northwestern	743	22
16	Washington	680	18
17	West Virginia	618	19
18	Auburn	483	20
19	BYU	348	21
20	Virginia	339	12
21	California	322	NR
22	Kansas State	281	16
23	Georgia Tech	206	NR
24	Wyoming	185	25
25	Texas	162	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.