AP Poll 11/14

Associated Press Poll

Year: 2005

11/14/2005

Week 11

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	USC (56)	1,616	1
2	Texas (9)	1,569	2
3	Miami	1,483	3
4	LSU	1,418	5
5	Penn State	1,334	6
6	Notre Dame	1,246	7
7	Virginia Tech	1,214	8
8	Alabama	1,176	4
9	Ohio State	1,163	10
10	Oregon	1,022	11
11	Auburn	963	15
12	UCLA	876	14
13	West Virginia	837	16
14	Georgia	780	9
15	TCU	719	18
16	Fresno State	632	20
17	Michigan	607	21
18	Louisville	486	23
19	South Carolina	402	NR
20	Florida	325	12
21	Texas Tech	319	13
22	Florida State	173	17
23	Boston College	154	NR
24	UTEP	124	NR
25	Wisconsin	104	19

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.