AP Poll 9/11

Associated Press Poll

Year: 1978

9/11/1978

Week 1

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	Alabama (51)	1,247	1
2	Arkansas (11)	1,128	2
3	Oklahoma	1,044	4
4	Michigan	933	6
5	Penn State (1)	922	3
6	Ohio State	891	7
7	Texas	833	8
8	USC	780	9
9	UCLA	777	12
10	Texas A&M	544	16
11	Missouri	516	NR
12	Nebraska	469	10
13	LSU	460	13
14	Pittsburgh	394	14
15	Notre Dame	379	5
16	Florida State	353	17
17	Kentucky	299	15
18	Washington	235	11
19	Iowa State	142	20
20	Maryland	132	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.