AP Poll Final

Associated Press Poll

Year: 1972

1/5/1973

Week 14

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	USC (50)	1,000	1
2	Oklahoma	872	2
3	Texas	667	7
4	Nebraska	665	9
5	Auburn	631	6
6	Michigan	502	8
7	Alabama	453	4
8	Tennessee	409	11
9	Ohio State	372	3
10	Penn State	340	5
11	LSU	209	10
12	North Carolina	179	16
13	Arizona State	158	15
14	Notre Dame	75	12
15	UCLA	71	14
16	Colorado	58	13
17	NC State	35	NR
18	Louisville	19	17
19	Washington State	9	19
20	Georgia Tech	5	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.