AP Poll 10/25

Associated Press Poll

Year: 1971

10/25/1971

Week 7

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	Nebraska (31)	1,044	1
2	Oklahoma (21)	1,020	2
3	Michigan (1)	833	3
4	Alabama (1)	788	4
5	Auburn (1)	637	5
6	Penn State	557	7
7	Georgia	503	8
8	Arkansas	403	9
9	Colorado	331	11
10	Ohio State	305	12
11	LSU	273	13
12	Notre Dame	235	6
13	Arizona State	110	14
14	Texas	94	16
15	Toledo	80	15
16	Tennessee	67	18
17	Stanford	57	10
18	Air Force	44	20
19	Florida State	16	NR
20	USC	13	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.