AP Poll 10/17

Associated Press Poll

Year: 1977

10/17/1977

Week 6

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	Michigan (47)	1,100	1
2	Texas (8)	1,014	2
3	Alabama	811	4
4	Ohio State	700	5
5	USC	689	6
6	Oklahoma	638	7
7	Colorado	431	3
8	Kentucky (1)	369	12
9	Arkansas	340	8
10	Penn State	328	10
11	Notre Dame	296	11
12	Texas A&M	220	13
13	Texas Tech	151	15
14	Pittsburgh	143	17
15	California	111	20
16	Iowa State	44	NR
17	BYU	40	NR
18	Nebraska	38	9
19	Florida	33	18
20	Clemson	31	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.