AP Poll 10/10

Associated Press Poll

Year: 1977

10/10/1977

Week 5

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	Michigan (44)	1,180	3
2	Texas (15)	1,100	5
3	Colorado (1)	775	6
4	Alabama	762	7
5	Ohio State (1)	735	4
6	USC	659	1
7	Oklahoma	657	2
8	Arkansas	475	8
9	Nebraska	471	9
10	Penn State	304	10
11	Notre Dame	219	11
12	Kentucky	184	16
13	Texas A&M	169	12
14	Wisconsin	144	19
15	Texas Tech	95	17
16	LSU	93	18
17	Pittsburgh	77	15
18	Florida	23	20
19	Houston	20	NR
20	California	18	14

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.