AP Poll 11/11

Associated Press Poll

Year: 1974

11/11/1974

Week 10

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	Oklahoma (48)	1,198	2
2	Alabama (10)	1,102	3
3	Michigan (4)	1,014	4
4	Ohio State	877	1
5	Notre Dame	668	8
6	Nebraska	577	9
7	Auburn	552	10
8	USC	487	11
9	Florida	318	6
10	Texas A&M	306	5
11	Penn State	245	7
12	Miami (OH)	160	13
13	Maryland	139	14
14	Houston	117	15
15	Michigan State	110	NR
16	NC State	103	NR
17	Pittsburgh	65	19
18	Oklahoma State	63	17
19	California	55	18
20	Texas Tech	48	20

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.