AP Poll 11/29

Associated Press Poll

Year: 1971

11/29/1971

Week 12

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	Nebraska (48)	1,086	1
2	Alabama (4)	938	3
3	Oklahoma	851	2
4	Michigan (2)	764	4
5	Penn State (1)	740	6
6	Auburn	478	5
7	Georgia	458	7
8	Colorado	397	8
9	Arizona State	380	9
10	LSU	319	10
11	Texas	245	12
12	Tennessee	220	11
13	Toledo	128	14
14	Notre Dame	122	13
15	Houston	104	15
16	Arkansas	46	17
16	Stanford	46	16
18	Mississippi	24	18
18	North Carolina	24	19
20	Washington	19	20

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.