AP Poll 10/23

Associated Press Poll

Year: 1978

10/23/1978

Week 7

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	Oklahoma (54)	1,270	1
2	Penn State (10)	1,203	2
3	Alabama	1,073	4
4	Nebraska	1,065	5
5	Maryland	938	6
6	USC	926	7
7	Texas	893	8
8	Michigan	767	9
9	Arkansas	760	3
10	UCLA	757	10
11	Houston	617	11
12	Arizona State	460	14
13	Missouri	456	13
14	LSU	405	16
15	Pittsburgh	372	15
16	Georgia	334	18
17	Purdue	266	19
18	Navy	237	17
19	Notre Dame	204	20
20	Clemson	77	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.