AP Poll 11/7

Associated Press Poll

Year: 1977

11/7/1977

Week 9

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	Texas (61)	1,307	1
2	Alabama (2)	1,072	2
3	Oklahoma	1,020	3
4	Ohio State	908	4
5	Notre Dame (2)	798	5
6	Michigan	688	6
7	Kentucky (1)	568	7
8	Arkansas	536	8
9	Penn State	464	9
10	Pittsburgh	339	12
11	Texas A&M	331	10
12	Nebraska	324	11
13	BYU	163	14
14	USC	94	16
15	Clemson	87	13
16	Florida State	80	15
17	Arizona State	54	19
18	Texas Tech	24	NR
19	North Carolina	16	NR
20	Colgate	8	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.