AP Poll 11/18

Associated Press Poll

Year: 1974

11/18/1974

Week 11

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	Oklahoma (45)	1,198	1
2	Alabama (9)	1,078	2
3	Michigan (8)	1,040	3
4	Ohio State	874	4
5	Notre Dame	639	5
6	Nebraska	630	6
7	Auburn	560	7
8	USC	542	8
9	Texas A&M	375	10
10	Penn State	311	11
11	Maryland	227	13
12	Miami (OH)	187	12
13	NC State	168	16
14	Michigan State	113	15
15	Houston	105	14
16	Baylor	63	NR
17	Texas	50	NR
18	Pittsburgh	42	17
19	California	41	19
20	Florida	36	9

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.