AP Poll 11/13

Associated Press Poll

Year: 1978

11/13/1978

Week 10

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	Penn State (55)	1,296	2
2	Nebraska (6)	1,209	4
3	Alabama (4)	1,203	3
4	Oklahoma	1,092	1
5	USC (1)	1,071	5
6	Houston	975	8
7	Michigan	965	7
8	Georgia	803	11
9	Texas	733	6
10	Notre Dame	662	14
11	Maryland	640	13
12	Clemson	555	15
13	Arkansas	461	16
14	UCLA	414	9
15	Purdue	406	12
16	Michigan State	337	17
17	LSU	295	10
18	Pittsburgh	251	20
19	Ohio State	142	NR
20	Georgia Tech	141	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.