AP Poll 10/14

Associated Press Poll

Year: 1996

10/14/1996

Week 8

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	Florida (54)	1,659	1
2	Ohio State (7)	1,578	2
3	Florida State (5)	1,575	3
4	Arizona State (1)	1,472	4
5	Nebraska	1,406	5
6	Tennessee	1,319	7
7	Alabama	1,146	8
8	Notre Dame	1,126	11
9	Colorado	1,118	9
10	Penn State	1,093	10
11	North Carolina	1,018	13
12	Miami	927	6
13	Michigan	899	14
14	Northwestern	798	15
15	West Virginia	731	17
16	Auburn	590	18
17	LSU	514	12
18	BYU	487	19
19	California	451	21
20	Virginia	409	20
21	Kansas State	379	22
22	Georgia Tech	317	23
23	Wyoming	264	24
24	Utah	111	NR
25	Washington	104	16

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.