AP Poll 11/20

Associated Press Poll

Year: 2006

11/20/2006

Week 12

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	Ohio State (65)	1,625	1
2	Michigan	1,502	2
3	USC	1,493	4
4	Florida	1,451	3
5	Arkansas	1,365	5
6	Notre Dame	1,307	6
7	West Virginia	1,144	8
8	Louisville	1,078	10
9	LSU	1,075	9
10	Wisconsin	1,049	12
11	Texas	1,028	11
12	Boise State	878	13
13	Oklahoma	856	16
14	Auburn	822	15
15	Rutgers	736	7
16	Georgia Tech	667	18
17	Virginia Tech	583	19
18	Boston College	516	20
19	Tennessee	404	22
20	Wake Forest	355	14
21	BYU	325	23
22	California	302	17
23	Nebraska	258	24
24	Clemson	122	25
25	Hawaii	89	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.