AP Poll 10/16

Associated Press Poll

Year: 1972

10/16/1972

Week 6

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	USC (28)	948	1
2	Oklahoma (20)	930	2
3	Alabama	689	3
4	Ohio State (1)	607	4
5	Nebraska	601	6
6	Michigan (1)	545	5
7	LSU	522	8
8	Notre Dame	473	7
9	Colorado	268	13
10	Tennessee	258	11
11	UCLA	235	14
12	Penn State	183	15
13	Stanford	160	17
14	Auburn	87	9
14	Texas	87	10
16	Air Force	73	16
17	Arkansas	33	20
18	Washington	25	12
19	Arizona State	21	NR
20	Iowa State	14	18

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.