AP Poll 10/10

Associated Press Poll

Year: 2005

10/10/2005

Week 6

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	USC (58)	1,618	1
2	Texas (7)	1,565	2
3	Virginia Tech	1,493	3
4	Florida State	1,393	4
5	Georgia	1,389	5
6	Alabama	1,244	7
7	Miami	1,205	9
8	Penn State	1,096	16
9	Notre Dame	1,058	12
10	LSU	1,057	11
11	Florida	935	13
12	UCLA	889	20
13	Texas Tech	794	15
14	Boston College	656	18
15	Ohio State	641	6
16	Michigan State	581	19
17	Tennessee	538	8
18	California	537	10
19	Louisville	461	23
20	Oregon	456	25
21	Auburn	441	22
22	Minnesota	321	NR
23	Wisconsin	241	14
24	Colorado	222	NR
25	TCU	181	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.