AP Poll 11/13

Associated Press Poll

Year: 1972

11/13/1972

Week 10

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	USC (42)	984	1
2	Alabama (5)	890	2
3	Michigan (3)	812	4
4	Oklahoma	654	7
5	Nebraska	527	3
6	Penn State	450	10
7	Texas	437	9
8	LSU	397	6
9	Ohio State	365	5
10	Notre Dame	339	12
11	Auburn	273	11
12	Iowa State	148	17
13	Tennessee	141	13
14	UCLA	129	8
15	Colorado	88	16
16	North Carolina	47	18
17	Washington	38	NR
18	Arizona State	29	19
19	Missouri	11	14
20	Washington State	9	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.