AP Poll 10/2

Associated Press Poll

Year: 1972

10/2/1972

Week 4

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	USC (36)	970	1
2	Oklahoma (13)	907	2
3	Ohio State	626	5
4	Alabama	612	6
5	Michigan (1)	565	8
6	Nebraska	559	7
7	Notre Dame	490	10
8	LSU	467	9
9	Texas	241	12
10	Tennessee	197	4
11	Washington	190	14
12	Colorado	187	3
13	Florida State	162	16
14	UCLA	144	15
15	Stanford	100	19
16	Penn State	97	13
17	Auburn	78	NR
18	Mississippi	41	17
19	Air Force	39	NR
20	Iowa State	38	NR

Associated Press Poll
Started in 1936.

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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.