AP Poll 10/16

Associated Press Poll

Year: 2006

10/16/2006

Week 7

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	Ohio State (63)	1,623	1
2	Michigan	1,528	4
3	USC	1,465	3
4	West Virginia (2)	1,459	5
5	Texas	1,355	6
6	Louisville	1,223	7
7	Tennessee	1,179	8
8	Auburn	1,176	11
9	Florida	1,143	2
10	Notre Dame	1,042	9
11	California	1,027	10
12	Clemson	885	12
13	Georgia Tech	772	13
14	LSU	751	14
15	Arkansas	734	17
16	Oregon	639	18
17	Nebraska	555	21
18	Boise State	519	20
19	Rutgers	400	24
20	Oklahoma	394	23
21	Wisconsin	366	25
22	Boston College	330	NR
23	Texas A&M	127	NR
24	Missouri	93	19
25	Wake Forest	83	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.