AP Poll 10/6

Associated Press Poll

Year: 1975

10/6/1975

Week 5

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	Ohio State (47)	1,178	2
2	Oklahoma (14)	1,072	1
3	USC (1)	975	3
4	Nebraska	858	4
5	Texas	722	7
6	Texas A&M	657	6
7	Alabama	451	9
8	Michigan	444	12
9	Penn State	383	10
10	West Virginia	321	11
11	Arizona State	179	14
12	Missouri	175	5
13	Colorado	153	19
14	Oklahoma State	144	15
15	Michigan State	141	NR
15	Notre Dame	141	8
17	Arizona	116	17
18	Florida	98	20
19	Tennessee	66	16
20	Miami (OH)	17	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.