AP Poll 9/6

Associated Press Poll

Year: 2005

9/6/2005

Week 1

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	USC (61)	1,621	1
2	Texas (4)	1,541	2
3	Michigan	1,360	4
4	Ohio State	1,301	6
5	LSU	1,291	5
6	Tennessee	1,280	3
7	Virginia Tech	1,253	8
8	Iowa	1,146	11
9	Georgia	1,131	13
10	Florida	1,129	10
11	Florida State	1,064	14
12	Louisville	911	12
13	Purdue	740	15
14	Miami	710	9
15	Arizona State	553	20
16	California	514	19
17	Georgia Tech	459	NR
18	Oklahoma	375	7
19	Boston College	372	22
20	Notre Dame	345	NR
21	Texas Tech	274	21
22	TCU	254	NR
23	Virginia	232	25
24	Fresno State	221	24
25	Clemson	164	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.