AP Poll Pre

Associated Press Poll

Year: 2005

7/1/2005

Preseason Poll

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	USC (60)	1,619	1
2	Texas (4)	1,500	5
3	Tennessee	1,376	13
4	Michigan	1,329	14
5	LSU	1,291	16
6	Ohio State	1,205	20
7	Oklahoma	1,204	3
8	Virginia Tech	1,184	10
9	Miami	1,142	11
10	Florida	1,080	NR
11	Iowa	1,011	8
12	Louisville (1)	892	6
13	Georgia	869	7
14	Florida State	764	15
15	Purdue	711	NR
16	Auburn	650	2
17	Texas A&M	576	NR
18	Boise State	375	12
19	California	358	9
20	Arizona State	313	19
21	Texas Tech	256	18
22	Boston College	232	21
23	Pittsburgh	211	25
24	Fresno State	196	22
25	Virginia	153	23

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.