AP Poll 10/20

Associated Press Poll

Year: 1975

10/20/1975

Week 7

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	Ohio State (51)	1,164	1
2	Oklahoma (8)	1,053	2
3	USC	851	3
4	Nebraska	828	4
5	Texas A&M	616	5
6	Alabama	572	6
7	Michigan	555	7
8	Texas	478	8
9	Penn State	418	9
10	Colorado	367	12
11	Arizona State	290	11
12	Florida	221	14
13	Arizona	178	13
14	Notre Dame	84	15
15	Missouri	59	10
16	Michigan State	50	17
17	Pittsburgh	43	NR
18	Maryland	42	19
19	UCLA	39	18
20	South Carolina	23	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.