AP Poll 11/23

Associated Press Poll

Year: 1976

11/23/1976

Week 11

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	Pittsburgh (39)	1,172	1
2	Michigan (13)	1,050	4
3	USC (7)	1,046	3
4	Georgia (1)	807	6
5	Maryland (2)	790	7
6	UCLA	576	2
7	Houston	550	9
8	Oklahoma	346	10
9	Texas Tech	333	5
10	Nebraska	323	12
11	Texas A&M	319	11
12	Ohio State	281	8
13	Notre Dame	246	13
14	Colorado	153	15
14	Oklahoma State	153	16
16	Penn State	74	17
17	Rutgers	40	20
18	Alabama	29	18
19	Mississippi State	15	NR
19	North Carolina	15	NR

Associated Press Poll
Started in 1936.

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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.