AP Poll 11/14

Associated Press Poll

Year: 1977

11/14/1977

Week 10

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	Texas (58)	1,214	1
2	Alabama (1)	983	2
3	Oklahoma (1)	962	3
4	Ohio State	819	4
5	Michigan	655	6
6	Notre Dame	639	5
7	Kentucky (1)	548	7
8	Arkansas	529	8
9	Penn State	458	9
10	Pittsburgh	377	10
11	Nebraska	306	12
12	Arizona State	165	17
13	Florida State	162	16
14	Texas A&M	111	11
15	Clemson	86	15
16	Texas Tech	59	18
17	BYU	31	13
18	North Carolina	28	19
19	Washington	24	NR
20	UCLA	21	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.