AP Poll 10/31

Associated Press Poll

Year: 2005

10/31/2005

Week 9

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	USC (57)	1,617	1
2	Texas (8)	1,563	2
3	Virginia Tech	1,500	3
4	Alabama	1,395	5
5	Miami	1,328	6
6	LSU	1,262	7
7	UCLA	1,233	8
8	Notre Dame	1,097	9
9	Florida State	1,094	10
10	Penn State	1,061	11
11	Georgia	972	4
12	Ohio State	926	12
13	Florida	836	16
14	Wisconsin	769	15
15	Oregon	756	14
16	Texas Tech	593	17
17	Auburn	535	19
18	West Virginia	521	18
19	Boston College	459	13
20	TCU	418	20
21	Fresno State	301	22
22	Michigan	294	25
23	California	212	24
24	Louisville	141	NR
25	Colorado	138	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.