AP Poll 10/9

Associated Press Poll

Year: 1978

10/9/1978

Week 5

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	Oklahoma (52)	1,248	1
2	USC (5)	1,144	2
3	Arkansas (3)	1,071	4
3	Penn State (3)	1,071	5
5	Michigan	1,040	3
6	Texas A&M	931	7
7	Alabama	841	8
8	Nebraska	743	10
9	Pittsburgh	733	9
10	Maryland	680	12
11	LSU	635	11
12	Texas	597	6
13	Colorado	571	13
14	UCLA	452	16
15	Florida State	226	18
16	Ohio State	158	14
17	Houston	124	NR
18	Stanford	115	17
19	Missouri	110	NR
20	Iowa State	101	15

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.