AP Poll 11/3

Associated Press Poll

Year: 1997

11/3/1997

Week 11

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	Nebraska (46)	1,719	1
2	Penn State (16)	1,643	2
3	Florida State (5)	1,627	3
4	Michigan (1)	1,561	4
5	North Carolina (2)	1,481	5
6	Washington	1,362	7
7	Ohio State	1,324	9
8	Tennessee	1,312	8
9	Georgia	1,138	14
10	UCLA	1,089	12
11	Kansas State	1,013	13
12	Iowa	904	15
13	Florida	902	6
14	LSU	837	16
15	Arizona State	811	20
16	Washington State	775	10
17	Auburn	515	11
18	Toledo	449	22
19	Mississippi State	347	NR
20	Virginia Tech	304	23
21	Texas A&M	299	25
22	Syracuse	286	NR
23	Purdue	255	18
24	Southern Miss	253	24
25	Oklahoma State	125	19

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.