AP Poll 11/27

Associated Press Poll

Year: 1972

11/27/1972

Week 12

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	USC (46)	990	1
2	Alabama (4)	890	2
3	Oklahoma	790	4
4	Ohio State	597	9
5	Penn State	563	6
6	Texas	494	7
7	Michigan	487	3
8	Nebraska	419	5
9	Auburn	323	10
10	Notre Dame	306	11
11	LSU	249	8
12	Tennessee	215	12
13	Colorado	151	13
14	North Carolina	81	15
15	UCLA	70	14
16	Arizona State	50	18
17	Louisville	22	NR
18	West Virginia	13	NR
19	Washington State	11	19
20	Oklahoma State	10	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.