AP Poll 11/2

Associated Press Poll

Year: 1976

11/2/1976

Week 8

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	Michigan (57)	1,228	1
2	Pittsburgh (5)	1,076	2
3	UCLA	976	3
4	USC	758	4
5	Texas Tech	703	6
6	Maryland	668	5
7	Georgia	547	7
8	Ohio State	497	8
9	Nebraska	451	9
10	Florida	342	12
11	Notre Dame	290	11
12	Arkansas	267	14
13	Oklahoma State	180	16
14	Colorado	146	19
15	Alabama	83	17
16	Missouri	31	10
17	Oklahoma	26	13
18	Texas A&M	19	NR
19	Houston	18	NR
20	Texas	10	15

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.