AP Poll 9/28

Associated Press Poll

Year: 1976

9/28/1976

Week 3

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	Michigan (56)	1,208	1
2	Pittsburgh (2)	972	3
3	Oklahoma (2)	912	4
4	UCLA	888	5
5	Nebraska	690	6
6	Georgia	597	7
7	Maryland	491	8
8	Ohio State	426	2
9	Kansas	385	10
10	Alabama	325	13
11	LSU	264	15
12	Missouri	222	NR
13	USC	156	19
14	North Carolina	133	16
15	Boston College	114	18
16	Mississippi	84	17
17	Texas Tech	59	20
18	Notre Dame	32	NR
19	Florida	29	NR
20	Penn State	28	11

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.