AP Poll 10/19

Associated Press Poll

Year: 1976

10/19/1976

Week 6

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	Michigan (58)	1,234	1
2	Pittsburgh (4)	1,088	2
3	Nebraska	930	3
4	UCLA	896	4
5	Oklahoma	718	6
6	Maryland	554	5
7	USC	513	8
8	Texas Tech	486	10
9	Ohio State	463	9
10	Georgia	403	11
11	Florida	266	12
12	Notre Dame	263	14
13	Texas	166	13
14	Houston	100	19
15	Arkansas	71	18
16	Iowa State	54	NR
17	Missouri	40	7
18	Alabama	25	20
19	South Carolina	16	NR
20	East Carolina	13	NR
20	Mississippi State	13	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.