AP Poll 9/29

Associated Press Poll

Year: 1997

9/29/1997

Week 6

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	Florida (36)	1,704	1
2	Penn State (25)	1,673	2
3	Nebraska (6)	1,606	3
4	Florida State (1)	1,529	4
5	North Carolina (2)	1,483	5
6	Michigan	1,404	6
7	Ohio State	1,285	7
8	Auburn	1,215	8
9	Tennessee	1,150	9
10	Washington	1,111	10
11	Iowa	1,103	11
12	Michigan State	967	12
13	LSU	847	13
14	Virginia Tech	824	14
15	Washington State	818	15
16	Colorado	637	16
17	Kansas State	563	18
18	Georgia	513	19
19	Stanford	458	20
20	Alabama	407	21
21	Texas A&M	388	22
22	UCLA	276	24
23	Air Force	202	NR
24	BYU	186	23
25	Arizona State	168	25

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.