AP Poll 9/22

Associated Press Poll

Year: 1975

9/22/1975

Week 3

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	Oklahoma (56)	1,192	1
2	Ohio State (3)	1,031	3
3	USC (1)	954	4
4	Nebraska	700	6
5	Missouri	697	5
6	Texas	530	8
7	Notre Dame	500	9
8	Texas A&M	472	11
9	Michigan	457	2
10	UCLA	441	12
11	Alabama	284	14
12	Penn State	278	7
13	Arizona State	115	18
14	West Virginia	99	20
15	Arizona	79	17
16	Tennessee	60	10
17	Oklahoma State	41	NR
18	Stanford	24	NR
19	Florida	19	13
20	Maryland	18	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.