AP Poll 9/15

Associated Press Poll

Year: 1975

9/15/1975

Week 2

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	Oklahoma (53)	1,138	1
2	Michigan (2)	931	2
3	Ohio State (2)	922	3
4	USC	685	4
5	Missouri	632	5
6	Nebraska	478	6
7	Penn State	433	10
8	Texas	427	12
9	Notre Dame	392	9
10	Tennessee	310	20
11	Texas A&M	272	8
12	UCLA	217	16
13	Florida	205	19
14	Alabama	109	13
15	Pittsburgh	71	18
16	Arkansas	64	NR
17	Arizona	56	17
18	Arizona State	51	NR
19	Miami (OH)	42	NR
20	West Virginia	29	NR

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.