AP Poll 11/28

Associated Press Poll

Year: 2005

11/28/2005

Week 13

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	USC (55)	1,615	1
2	Texas (10)	1,570	2
3	LSU	1,447	3
4	Penn State	1,430	4
5	Virginia Tech	1,332	5
6	Ohio State	1,276	7
7	Notre Dame	1,252	6
8	Oregon	1,144	8
9	Auburn	1,126	9
10	Miami	989	10
11	UCLA	942	11
12	West Virginia	932	12
13	Georgia	899	13
14	Alabama	758	14
15	TCU	740	15
16	Louisville	600	17
17	Florida	542	19
18	Texas Tech	512	18
19	Boston College	396	21
20	Michigan	340	22
21	Wisconsin	317	24
22	Clemson	225	25
23	Fresno State	203	16
24	Georgia Tech	187	20
25	Iowa	91	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.