AP Poll 12/5

Associated Press Poll

Year: 2005

12/5/2005

Week 14

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	USC (56)	1,616	1
2	Texas (9)	1,569	2
3	Penn State	1,483	4
4	Ohio State	1,375	6
5	Notre Dame	1,327	7
6	Oregon	1,241	8
7	Auburn	1,221	9
8	Georgia	1,202	13
9	Miami	1,098	10
10	LSU	1,028	3
11	West Virginia	991	12
12	Virginia Tech	943	5
13	Alabama	813	14
14	TCU	790	15
15	Louisville	644	16
16	Florida	588	17
17	UCLA	542	11
18	Texas Tech	533	18
19	Boston College	410	19
20	Michigan	377	20
21	Wisconsin	325	21
22	Florida State	296	NR
23	Clemson	240	22
24	Georgia Tech	189	24
25	Iowa	86	25

Associated Press Poll
Started in 1936.

More Info

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.