AP Poll 9/4

Associated Press Poll

Year: 2006

9/4/2006

Week 1

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	Ohio State (39)	1,568	1
2	Texas (7)	1,453	3
3	USC (3)	1,410	6
4	Auburn (3)	1,408	4
4	Notre Dame (8)	1,408	2
6	West Virginia (5)	1,356	5
7	Florida	1,191	7
8	LSU	1,185	8
9	Florida State	1,130	11
10	Michigan	841	14
11	Tennessee	839	23
12	Georgia	836	15
13	Louisville	820	13
14	Iowa	800	16
15	Oklahoma	725	10
16	Virginia Tech	673	17
17	Miami	624	12
18	Clemson	564	18
19	Penn State	467	19
20	Oregon	436	21
21	Nebraska	358	20
22	California	212	9
23	TCU	198	22
24	Texas Tech	196	25
25	Arizona State	134	24

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.