AP Poll Final

Associated Press Poll

Year: 1976

1/5/1977

Week 13

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	Pittsburgh (59)	1,234	1
2	USC (3)	1,118	3
3	Michigan	847	2
4	Houston	804	6
5	Oklahoma	638	8
6	Ohio State	510	11
7	Texas A&M	487	10
8	Maryland	445	4
9	Nebraska	422	13
10	Georgia	388	5
11	Alabama	331	16
12	Notre Dame	321	15
13	Texas Tech	276	9
14	Oklahoma State	190	14
15	UCLA	172	7
16	Colorado	52	12
17	Rutgers	50	17
18	Kentucky	30	NR
19	Iowa State	14	NR
20	Mississippi State	13	20

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.