AP Poll 9/9

Associated Press Poll

Year: 1974

9/9/1974

Week 1

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	Oklahoma (22)	917	1
2	Notre Dame (17)	863	3
3	Alabama (5)	803	4
4	Ohio State (9)	802	2
5	USC (1)	687	5
6	Michigan	539	6
7	Nebraska	416	7
8	Penn State	408	8
9	LSU	348	9
10	Texas	312	10
11	Arizona State	245	15
12	UCLA	143	12
13	Pittsburgh	137	13
14	Maryland	113	14
15	Tennessee	109	16
16	NC State	70	18
17	Arizona	62	17
18	Missouri	50	NR
19	Houston	40	11
20	Arkansas	21	19
20	Stanford	21	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.