AP Poll Final

Associated Press Poll

Year: 2005

1/5/2006

Week 15

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	Texas (65)	1,625	2
2	USC	1,560	1
3	Penn State	1,484	3
4	Ohio State	1,428	4
5	West Virginia	1,325	11
6	LSU	1,314	10
7	Virginia Tech	1,197	12
8	Alabama	1,081	13
9	Notre Dame	1,019	5
10	Georgia	994	8
11	TCU	937	14
12	Florida	817	16
12	Oregon	817	6
14	Auburn	799	7
15	Wisconsin	786	21
16	UCLA	778	17
17	Miami	589	9
18	Boston College	545	19
19	Louisville	410	15
20	Texas Tech	359	18
21	Clemson	339	23
22	Oklahoma	329	NR
23	Florida State	232	22
24	Nebraska	128	NR
25	California	45	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.