AP Poll 9/20

Associated Press Poll

Year: 1971

9/20/1971

Week 2

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	Nebraska (32)	1,044	1
2	Notre Dame (18)	1,002	2
3	Texas (3)	799	3
4	Michigan	750	4
5	Auburn (2)	498	7
6	Ohio State	483	5
7	Arkansas	480	6
8	Alabama	406	9
9	Tennessee	400	8
10	Colorado	331	12
11	Oklahoma	290	10
12	Penn State	230	14
13	Stanford	212	13
14	Georgia	199	11
15	Arizona State	116	16
16	USC	49	17
17	Washington	48	NR
18	LSU	35	NR
19	Toledo	27	NR
20	Duke	26	NR

Associated Press Poll
Started in 1936.

More Info

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.