AP Poll 10/28

Associated Press Poll

Year: 1996

10/28/1996

Week 10

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	Florida (59)	1,666	1
2	Ohio State (4)	1,579	2
3	Florida State (3)	1,563	3
4	Arizona State (1)	1,481	4
5	Nebraska	1,404	5
6	Tennessee	1,347	6
7	Colorado	1,210	8
8	North Carolina	1,195	9
9	Michigan	1,080	10
10	Alabama	1,065	7
11	Northwestern	1,037	11
12	LSU	868	13
13	BYU	790	15
14	Kansas State	759	16
15	Penn State	644	17
16	Virginia	580	14
17	Wyoming	576	18
18	West Virginia	459	12
19	Notre Dame	439	19
20	Utah	412	21
21	Washington	271	23
22	Miami	265	25
23	Southern Miss	257	24
24	Auburn	231	22
25	Iowa	190	20

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.