AP Poll 10/27

Associated Press Poll

Year: 1975

10/27/1975

Week 8

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	Ohio State (50)	1,190	1
2	Oklahoma (8)	1,084	2
3	Nebraska (2)	939	4
4	USC (1)	890	3
5	Texas A&M	632	5
6	Alabama	609	6
7	Michigan	584	7
8	Texas	516	8
9	Penn State	459	9
10	Arizona State	342	11
11	Florida	293	12
12	Missouri	183	15
13	UCLA	151	19
14	Maryland	108	18
15	Notre Dame	62	14
16	Colorado	52	10
17	Arizona	41	13
18	San Diego State	34	NR
19	Miami (OH)	33	NR
19	Oklahoma State	33	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.