AP Poll 9/17

Associated Press Poll

Year: 2006

9/17/2006

Week 3

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	Ohio State (59)	1,617	1
2	Auburn (2)	1,507	3
3	USC (2)	1,494	4
4	West Virginia (2)	1,419	5
5	Florida	1,354	7
6	Michigan	1,301	11
7	Texas	1,179	8
8	Louisville	1,127	12
9	Georgia	1,104	10
10	LSU	1,085	6
11	Virginia Tech	934	14
12	Notre Dame	902	2
13	Oregon	837	18
14	Iowa	833	16
15	Tennessee	583	13
16	TCU	530	20
17	Oklahoma	513	15
18	Florida State	456	9
19	Clemson	407	NR
20	Boston College	393	23
21	California	386	21
22	Arizona State	384	22
23	Nebraska	160	19
24	Penn State	143	25
25	Boise State	109	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.