AP Poll 11/21

Associated Press Poll

Year: 1977

11/21/1977

Week 11

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	Texas (60)	1,272	1
2	Alabama	1,044	2
3	Oklahoma (1)	998	3
4	Michigan	912	5
5	Notre Dame (1)	732	6
6	Arkansas	606	8
7	Kentucky (1)	600	7
8	Ohio State	486	4
9	Penn State	483	9
10	Pittsburgh	398	10
11	Nebraska	324	11
12	Texas A&M	238	14
13	Clemson	164	15
14	Washington	80	19
15	North Carolina	76	18
16	San Diego State	49	NR
17	UCLA	45	20
18	BYU	29	17
19	Arizona State	19	12
20	Florida State	18	13

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.