AP Poll 11/21

Associated Press Poll

Year: 2005

11/21/2005

Week 12

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	USC (50)	1,586	1
2	Texas (14)	1,550	2
3	LSU	1,449	4
4	Penn State	1,390	5
5	Virginia Tech	1,283	7
6	Notre Dame	1,281	6
7	Ohio State	1,249	9
8	Oregon	1,107	10
9	Auburn	1,101	11
10	Miami	981	3
11	UCLA	932	12
12	West Virginia	862	13
13	Georgia	857	14
14	Alabama	723	8
15	TCU	722	15
16	Fresno State	663	16
17	Louisville	522	18
18	Texas Tech	448	21
19	Florida	384	20
20	Georgia Tech	347	NR
21	Boston College	319	23
22	Michigan	235	17
23	Florida State	214	22
24	Wisconsin	160	25
25	Clemson	141	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.