AP Poll Final

Associated Press Poll

Year: 1996

1/5/1997

Week 17

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	Florida (66)	1,674	3
2	Ohio State (2)	1,586	4
3	Florida State	1,529	1
4	Arizona State	1,486	2
5	BYU	1,360	5
6	Nebraska	1,316	6
7	Penn State	1,293	7
8	Colorado	1,228	8
9	Tennessee	1,172	9
10	North Carolina	1,070	12
11	Alabama	977	16
12	LSU	849	17
13	Virginia Tech	786	10
14	Miami	690	19
15	Northwestern	663	11
16	Washington	643	13
17	Kansas State	625	14
18	Iowa	535	21
19	Notre Dame	511	18
20	Michigan	466	15
21	Syracuse	451	23
22	Wyoming	314	22
23	Texas	169	20
24	Auburn	130	NR
25	Army	71	24

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.