AP Poll 9/27

Associated Press Poll

Year: 1971

9/27/1971

Week 3

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	Nebraska (44)	1,064	1
2	Michigan (3)	840	4
3	Texas (3)	835	3
4	Notre Dame (1)	710	2
5	Auburn (2)	649	5
6	Colorado (2)	638	10
7	Alabama	542	8
8	Oklahoma	411	11
9	Penn State	316	12
10	Stanford	303	13
11	Georgia	249	14
12	Tennessee	193	9
13	Arizona State	155	15
14	Ohio State	120	6
15	Washington	98	17
16	LSU	70	18
17	USC	62	16
18	Arkansas	52	7
19	Duke	31	20
20	North Carolina	22	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.