AP Poll 11/10

Associated Press Poll

Year: 1997

11/10/1997

Week 12

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	Michigan (44)	1,723	4
2	Florida State (23)	1,693	3
3	Nebraska (3)	1,623	1
4	Ohio State	1,496	7
5	Tennessee	1,477	8
6	Penn State	1,342	2
7	Georgia	1,314	9
8	North Carolina	1,248	5
9	UCLA	1,200	10
10	Kansas State	1,125	11
11	LSU	995	14
12	Florida	966	13
13	Washington	898	6
14	Washington State	873	16
15	Arizona State	865	15
16	Auburn	615	17
17	Mississippi State	473	19
18	Texas A&M	418	21
19	Purdue	404	23
19	Virginia Tech	404	20
21	Syracuse	372	22
22	Iowa	289	12
23	Wisconsin	288	NR
24	Oklahoma State	254	25
25	Missouri	115	NR

Associated Press Poll
Started in 1936.

More Info

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.