AP Poll 11/25

Associated Press Poll

Year: 1996

11/25/1996

Week 14

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	Florida (59)	1,667	1
2	Florida State (5)	1,601	3
3	Arizona State (3)	1,554	4
4	Nebraska	1,475	5
5	Colorado	1,382	6
6	Ohio State	1,326	2
7	BYU	1,207	8
8	Penn State	1,206	7
9	Tennessee	1,042	9
10	Notre Dame	1,020	10
11	Northwestern	950	11
12	Washington	870	12
13	North Carolina	851	13
14	Kansas State	793	14
15	Alabama	758	15
16	Syracuse	700	16
17	Virginia Tech	677	17
18	Michigan	625	21
19	LSU	576	18
20	Virginia	416	19
21	Wyoming	360	20
22	Iowa	237	24
23	Miami	203	25
24	Army	73	NR
25	West Virginia	51	23

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.