AP Poll 9/24

Associated Press Poll

Year: 2006

9/24/2006

Week 4

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	Ohio State (59)	1,617	1
2	Auburn (2)	1,513	2
3	USC (2)	1,491	3
4	West Virginia (2)	1,404	4
5	Florida	1,363	5
6	Michigan	1,318	6
7	Texas	1,196	7
8	Louisville	1,166	8
9	LSU	1,114	10
10	Georgia	972	9
11	Virginia Tech	945	11
12	Notre Dame	879	12
13	Iowa	864	14
14	Oregon	805	13
15	Tennessee	658	15
16	Oklahoma	613	17
17	TCU	563	16
18	Clemson	529	19
19	Florida State	510	18
20	California	508	21
21	Nebraska	327	23
22	Boise State	226	25
23	Rutgers	117	NR
24	Georgia Tech	77	NR
25	Missouri	70	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.