AP Poll 9/19

Associated Press Poll

Year: 2005

9/19/2005

Week 3

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	USC (57)	1,617	1
2	Texas (8)	1,564	2
3	LSU	1,437	3
4	Virginia Tech	1,406	4
5	Florida	1,372	6
6	Florida State	1,246	8
7	Georgia	1,235	7
8	Ohio State	1,127	9
9	Louisville	1,096	11
10	Tennessee	929	5
11	Purdue	916	12
12	Miami	901	13
13	California	739	15
14	Michigan	702	14
15	Georgia Tech	699	16
16	Notre Dame	609	10
17	Michigan State	500	NR
18	Arizona State	480	18
19	Texas Tech	416	19
20	Alabama	298	NR
21	Iowa	282	22
22	Iowa State	245	24
23	Virginia	221	25
24	Oregon	201	NR
25	UCLA	185	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.