AP Poll 10/26

Associated Press Poll

Year: 1976

10/26/1976

Week 7

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	Michigan (53)	1,184	1
2	Pittsburgh (6)	1,068	2
3	UCLA	944	4
4	USC	707	7
5	Maryland	705	6
6	Texas Tech (1)	618	8
7	Georgia	483	10
8	Ohio State	475	9
9	Nebraska	368	3
10	Missouri	293	17
11	Notre Dame	292	12
12	Florida	287	11
13	Oklahoma	268	5
14	Arkansas	159	15
15	Texas	81	13
16	Oklahoma State	33	NR
17	Alabama	29	18
18	Mississippi State	25	21
19	Colorado	12	NR
20	Cincinnati	10	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.