AP Poll 10/3

Associated Press Poll

Year: 2005

10/3/2005

Week 5

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	USC (59)	1,619	1
2	Texas (6)	1,564	2
3	Virginia Tech	1,494	3
4	Florida State	1,391	6
5	Georgia	1,318	7
6	Ohio State	1,279	8
7	Alabama	1,150	15
8	Tennessee	1,143	10
9	Miami	1,118	9
10	California	988	12
11	LSU	978	4
12	Notre Dame	966	13
13	Florida	792	5
14	Wisconsin	773	17
15	Texas Tech	588	16
16	Penn State	493	NR
17	Arizona State	491	14
18	Boston College	464	21
19	Michigan State	455	11
20	UCLA	412	20
21	Michigan	335	NR
22	Auburn	298	NR
23	Louisville	288	24
24	Georgia Tech	226	25
25	Oregon	121	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.