AP Poll 10/11

Associated Press Poll

Year: 1971

10/11/1971

Week 5

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	Nebraska (40)	1,056	1
2	Oklahoma (8)	888	8
3	Michigan (4)	880	2
4	Alabama	668	6
5	Auburn (2)	620	4
6	Colorado (1)	619	5
7	Notre Dame	575	7
8	Georgia	404	10
9	Penn State	387	9
10	Texas	314	3
11	Arizona State	208	12
12	LSU	163	16
13	Ohio State	159	15
14	Tennessee	151	13
15	Stanford	141	19
16	Arkansas	86	17
17	Toledo	29	20
18	Washington	28	11
19	Florida State	26	NR
20	Purdue	17	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.