AP Poll 11/5

Associated Press Poll

Year: 1979

11/5/1979

Week 9

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	Alabama (46)	1,290	1
2	Nebraska (4)	1,190	2
3	Ohio State (8)	1,154	5
4	USC (7)	1,151	3
5	Houston (1)	1,093	4
6	Oklahoma	911	7
7	Florida State	897	6
8	Texas	857	8
9	Arkansas	818	9
10	Michigan	748	10
11	BYU	676	11
12	Pittsburgh	573	12
13	Notre Dame	536	13
14	Purdue	432	15
15	Washington	400	16
16	Auburn	232	20
17	Baylor	155	NR
18	Clemson	139	NR
19	South Carolina	109	NR
20	Wake Forest	73	14

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.