AP Poll 10/30

Associated Press Poll

Year: 2006

10/30/2006

Week 9

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	Ohio State (63)	1,623	1
2	Michigan	1,547	2
3	West Virginia (2)	1,494	4
4	Texas	1,397	5
5	Louisville	1,278	6
6	Auburn	1,250	7
7	Florida	1,243	9
8	Tennessee	1,232	8
9	USC	1,059	3
10	California	1,040	12
11	Notre Dame	1,037	11
12	Arkansas	935	13
13	LSU	842	14
14	Boise State	688	15
15	Rutgers	644	16
16	Boston College	624	18
17	Wisconsin	617	17
18	Oklahoma	589	19
19	Clemson	435	10
20	Georgia Tech	402	21
21	Texas A&M	353	22
22	Wake Forest	246	24
23	Virginia Tech	188	NR
24	Oregon	167	25
25	Washington State	40	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.