AP Poll 11/27

Associated Press Poll

Year: 2006

11/27/2006

Week 13

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	Ohio State (65)	1,625	1
2	USC	1,540	3
3	Michigan	1,504	2
4	Florida	1,441	4
5	LSU	1,303	9
6	Louisville	1,241	8
7	Wisconsin	1,212	10
8	Arkansas	1,095	5
8	Oklahoma	1,095	13
10	Boise State	1,044	12
11	Auburn	966	14
12	Notre Dame	940	6
13	Rutgers	906	15
14	Virginia Tech	775	17
15	West Virginia	667	7
16	Wake Forest	621	20
17	Tennessee	542	19
17	Texas	542	11
19	Nebraska	405	23
20	BYU	394	21
21	California	367	22
22	Texas A&M	318	NR
23	Georgia Tech	210	16
24	Hawaii	174	25
25	Boston College	91	18

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.