AP Poll 11/24

Associated Press Poll

Year: 1997

11/24/1997

Week 14

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	Michigan (69)	1,749	1
2	Nebraska (1)	1,679	3
3	Tennessee	1,570	5
4	Penn State	1,497	6
5	Florida State	1,470	2
6	UCLA	1,311	7
7	Florida	1,285	10
8	North Carolina	1,236	8
9	Ohio State	1,206	4
10	Washington State	1,178	11
11	Kansas State	1,163	9
12	Arizona State	978	12
13	Auburn	907	13
14	Georgia	865	14
15	Texas A&M	727	16
16	Syracuse	648	18
17	LSU	589	20
18	Purdue	473	23
19	Missouri	433	21
20	Colorado State	359	25
21	Washington	270	17
22	Mississippi State	257	15
23	Southern Miss	192	NR
24	Air Force	148	NR
25	Oklahoma State	118	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.