AP Poll 11/4

Associated Press Poll

Year: 1996

11/4/1996

Week 11

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	Florida (59)	1,667	1
2	Ohio State (5)	1,582	2
3	Florida State (2)	1,564	3
4	Arizona State (1)	1,477	4
5	Nebraska	1,406	5
6	Tennessee	1,344	6
7	Colorado	1,218	7
8	North Carolina	1,204	8
9	Michigan	1,133	9
10	Alabama	1,086	10
11	LSU	902	12
12	BYU	858	13
13	Kansas State	813	14
14	Penn State	810	15
15	Virginia	684	16
16	Wyoming	646	17
17	Notre Dame	583	19
18	Northwestern	518	11
19	Washington	439	21
20	Southern Miss	341	23
21	Miami	336	22
22	Auburn	298	24
23	Iowa	269	25
24	Syracuse	233	NR
25	Virginia Tech	137	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.