AP Poll 10/1

Associated Press Poll

Year: 1979

10/1/1979

Week 4

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	USC (47)	1,222	1
2	Alabama (14)	1,180	2
3	Oklahoma	1,080	3
4	Texas (1)	1,053	4
5	Nebraska	999	6
6	Houston	838	8
7	Washington	777	9
8	Ohio State	683	14
9	Florida State	662	12
10	Notre Dame	656	15
11	Michigan	654	11
12	Purdue	648	10
13	Arkansas	619	13
14	NC State	388	16
15	Missouri	342	5
16	Michigan State	290	7
17	LSU	266	20
18	North Carolina	256	NR
19	Tennessee	174	NR
20	BYU	122	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.