AP Poll 10/23

Associated Press Poll

Year: 2006

10/23/2006

Week 8

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	Ohio State (63)	1,623	1
2	Michigan	1,533	2
3	USC	1,468	3
4	West Virginia (2)	1,458	4
5	Texas	1,355	5
6	Louisville	1,215	6
7	Auburn	1,182	8
8	Tennessee	1,178	7
9	Florida	1,146	9
10	Clemson	989	12
11	Notre Dame	988	10
12	California	964	11
13	Arkansas	843	15
14	LSU	799	14
15	Boise State	608	18
16	Rutgers	579	19
17	Wisconsin	560	21
18	Boston College	526	22
19	Oklahoma	497	20
20	Nebraska	373	17
21	Georgia Tech	303	13
22	Texas A&M	288	23
23	Missouri	240	24
24	Wake Forest	164	25
25	Oregon	132	16

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.