AP Poll 11/11

Associated Press Poll

Year: 1996

11/11/1996

Week 12

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	Florida (46)	1,650	1
2	Ohio State (17)	1,597	2
3	Florida State (2)	1,560	3
4	Arizona State (2)	1,486	4
5	Nebraska	1,411	5
6	Colorado	1,282	7
6	North Carolina	1,282	8
8	Alabama	1,231	10
9	Kansas State	1,060	13
10	BYU	1,042	12
11	Penn State	979	14
12	Tennessee	852	6
13	Northwestern	813	18
14	Notre Dame	795	17
15	Washington	669	19
16	Michigan	638	9
17	LSU	570	11
18	Miami	500	21
19	Syracuse	492	24
20	Auburn	415	22
21	Virginia Tech	409	25
22	Army	281	NR
23	Wyoming	227	16
24	Virginia	162	15
25	Southern Miss	117	20

Associated Press Poll
Started in 1936.

More Info

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.