AP Poll 11/16

Associated Press Poll

Year: 1976

11/16/1976

Week 10

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	Pittsburgh (44)	1,206	1
2	UCLA (13)	1,093	2
3	USC (1)	866	3
4	Michigan (2)	834	4
5	Texas Tech (1)	786	5
6	Georgia	663	7
6	Maryland	663	6
8	Ohio State	555	8
9	Houston	315	12
10	Oklahoma	285	14
11	Texas A&M (1)	271	16
12	Nebraska	203	9
13	Notre Dame	189	18
14	Iowa State	188	NR
15	Colorado	100	19
16	Oklahoma State	99	17
17	Penn State	31	NR
18	Alabama	28	10
19	Missouri	26	11
19	Rutgers	26	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.