AP Poll 9/18

Associated Press Poll

Year: 1972

9/18/1972

Week 2

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	USC (28)	920	1
2	Oklahoma (11)	840	4
3	Colorado (7)	769	2
4	Ohio State (2)	622	3
5	Tennessee (2)	615	7
6	UCLA	490	8
7	Alabama	463	5
8	LSU	392	9
9	Nebraska	377	10
10	Arizona State	190	13
11	Penn State	180	6
12	Michigan	162	11
13	Notre Dame	156	14
14	Texas	109	15
15	Washington	86	12
16	Georgia	59	16
17	Florida State	58	20
18	Michigan State	54	NR
19	Stanford	50	NR
20	Mississippi	38	19

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.