AP Poll 9/25

Associated Press Poll

Year: 2005

9/25/2005

Week 4

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	USC (59)	1,619	1
2	Texas (6)	1,560	2
3	Virginia Tech	1,448	4
4	LSU	1,424	3
5	Florida	1,367	5
6	Florida State	1,249	6
7	Georgia	1,242	7
8	Ohio State	1,200	8
9	Miami	1,028	12
10	Tennessee	995	10
11	Michigan State	905	17
12	California	892	13
13	Notre Dame	800	16
14	Arizona State	690	18
15	Alabama	608	20
16	Texas Tech	512	19
17	Wisconsin	493	NR
18	Minnesota	439	NR
19	Virginia	396	23
20	UCLA	331	25
21	Boston College	326	NR
22	Purdue	322	11
23	Iowa State	297	22
24	Louisville	222	9
25	Georgia Tech	169	15

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.