AP Poll 9/10

Associated Press Poll

Year: 2006

9/10/2006

Week 2

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	Ohio State (59)	1,614	1
2	Notre Dame (3)	1,468	5
3	Auburn (2)	1,447	4
4	USC (2)	1,446	3
5	West Virginia (2)	1,380	6
6	LSU	1,287	8
7	Florida	1,249	7
8	Texas	1,150	2
9	Florida State	1,029	9
10	Georgia	944	12
11	Michigan	942	10
12	Louisville	911	13
13	Tennessee	782	11
14	Virginia Tech	763	16
15	Oklahoma	755	15
16	Iowa	690	14
17	Miami	625	17
18	Oregon	547	20
19	Nebraska	455	21
20	TCU	285	23
21	California	284	22
22	Arizona State	206	25
23	Boston College	193	NR
24	Texas Tech	186	24
25	Penn State	95	19

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.