AP Poll 11/18

Associated Press Poll

Year: 1996

11/18/1996

Week 13

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	Florida (54)	1,660	1
2	Ohio State (7)	1,580	2
3	Florida State (4)	1,568	3
4	Arizona State (2)	1,485	4
5	Nebraska	1,412	5
6	Colorado	1,336	6
7	Penn State	1,197	11
8	BYU	1,192	10
9	Tennessee	1,026	12
10	Notre Dame	972	14
11	Northwestern	959	13
12	Washington	872	15
13	North Carolina	862	7
14	Kansas State	799	9
15	Alabama	772	8
16	Syracuse	713	19
17	Virginia Tech	677	21
18	LSU	659	17
19	Virginia	476	24
20	Wyoming	381	23
21	Michigan	327	16
22	Clemson	185	NR
23	West Virginia	170	NR
24	Iowa	139	NR
25	Miami	126	18

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.