AP Poll 12/6

Associated Press Poll

Year: 1971

12/6/1971

Week 13

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	Nebraska (48)	1,086	1
2	Alabama (4)	954	2
3	Oklahoma	880	3
4	Michigan (3)	797	4
5	Auburn	581	6
6	Georgia	480	7
7	Colorado	432	8
8	Arizona State	394	9
9	Tennessee	385	12
10	Penn State	334	5
11	LSU	307	10
12	Texas	262	11
13	Notre Dame	142	14
14	Toledo	129	13
15	Houston	81	15
16	Stanford	40	17
17	Mississippi	34	18
18	Arkansas	28	16
19	Northwestern	16	NR
20	Washington	15	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.