AP Poll 11/13

Associated Press Poll

Year: 2006

11/13/2006

Week 11

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	Ohio State (64)	1,624	1
2	Michigan (1)	1,561	2
3	Florida	1,436	6
4	USC	1,433	7
5	Arkansas	1,331	11
6	Notre Dame	1,302	9
7	Rutgers	1,212	15
8	West Virginia	1,075	10
9	LSU	1,074	12
10	Louisville	1,028	3
11	Texas	965	4
12	Wisconsin	930	16
13	Boise State	805	14
14	Wake Forest	777	18
15	Auburn	751	5
16	Oklahoma	746	17
17	California	595	8
18	Georgia Tech	563	19
19	Virginia Tech	413	20
20	Boston College	350	22
21	Maryland	309	23
22	Tennessee	276	13
23	BYU	216	25
24	Nebraska	197	NR
25	Clemson	57	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.