AP Poll 11/6

Associated Press Poll

Year: 2006

11/6/2006

Week 10

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	Ohio State (65)	1,625	1
2	Michigan	1,554	2
3	Louisville	1,441	5
4	Texas	1,438	4
5	Auburn	1,320	6
6	Florida	1,314	7
7	USC	1,173	9
8	California	1,136	10
9	Notre Dame	1,096	11
10	West Virginia	1,024	3
11	Arkansas	1,020	12
12	LSU	996	13
13	Tennessee	744	8
14	Boise State	742	14
15	Rutgers	721	15
16	Wisconsin	689	17
17	Oklahoma	667	18
18	Wake Forest	509	22
19	Georgia Tech	493	20
20	Virginia Tech	333	23
21	Oregon	308	24
22	Boston College	230	16
23	Maryland	178	NR
24	Texas A&M	137	21
25	BYU	92	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.