AP Poll 11/24

Associated Press Poll

Year: 1975

11/24/1975

Week 12

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	Ohio State (56)	1,160	1
2	Texas A&M (1)	1,010	3
3	Oklahoma (2)	904	7
4	Alabama	707	5
5	Texas	682	6
6	Michigan	601	4
7	Nebraska	596	2
8	Arizona State	469	8
9	Colorado	375	9
10	Penn State	329	10
11	California	251	13
12	Arizona	242	11
13	Florida	153	12
14	UCLA	110	14
15	Georgia	101	15
16	Miami (OH)	57	16
17	Maryland	48	20
18	Kansas	42	NR
19	Arkansas	38	19
20	San Jose State	28	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.