AP Poll 10/6

Associated Press Poll

Year: 1997

10/6/1997

Week 7

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	Florida (35)	1,704	1
2	Penn State (26)	1,672	2
3	Nebraska (6)	1,606	3
4	Florida State (1)	1,540	4
5	North Carolina (2)	1,464	5
6	Michigan	1,404	6
7	Ohio State	1,334	7
8	Auburn	1,227	8
9	Tennessee	1,158	9
10	Washington	1,143	10
11	Michigan State	1,065	12
12	Washington State	980	15
13	Georgia	814	18
14	LSU	770	13
15	Texas A&M	750	21
16	Stanford	714	19
17	Iowa	702	11
18	UCLA	560	22
19	Air Force	416	23
20	Oklahoma State	321	NR
21	BYU	309	24
22	Kansas State	227	17
23	Virginia Tech	174	14
24	Colorado	140	16
25	Georgia Tech	125	NR

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.