AP Poll 10/17

Associated Press Poll

Year: 2005

10/17/2005

Week 7

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	USC (57)	1,617	1
2	Texas (8)	1,566	2
3	Virginia Tech	1,495	3
4	Georgia	1,426	5
5	Alabama	1,306	6
6	Miami	1,278	7
7	LSU	1,201	10
8	UCLA	1,085	12
9	Notre Dame	1,020	9
10	Texas Tech	1,007	13
11	Florida State	1,003	4
12	Penn State	854	8
13	Boston College	809	14
14	Ohio State	798	15
15	Oregon	665	20
16	Auburn	644	21
17	Tennessee	581	17
18	Florida	575	11
19	Wisconsin	549	23
20	West Virginia	379	NR
21	TCU	249	25
22	Michigan State	223	16
23	Virginia	161	NR
24	Fresno State	100	NR
25	California	89	18

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.