AP Poll 10/13

Associated Press Poll

Year: 1997

10/13/1997

Week 8

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	Penn State (51)	1,724	2
2	Nebraska (14)	1,668	3
3	Florida State (3)	1,603	4
4	North Carolina (2)	1,521	5
5	Michigan	1,490	6
6	Auburn	1,366	8
7	Florida	1,280	1
8	LSU	1,199	14
9	Tennessee	1,126	9
10	Washington	1,121	10
11	Ohio State	1,113	7
12	Michigan State	1,058	11
13	Washington State	958	12
14	Texas A&M	827	15
15	Iowa	703	17
16	Oklahoma State	665	20
17	UCLA	637	18
18	Air Force	516	19
19	Georgia	446	13
20	Kansas State	388	22
21	Georgia Tech	281	25
22	Virginia Tech	274	23
23	West Virginia	182	NR
24	Wisconsin	134	NR
25	Stanford	119	16

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.