AP Poll 9/22

Associated Press Poll

Year: 1980

9/22/1980

Week 3

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	Alabama (34)	1,215	1
2	Ohio State (26)	1,183	2
3	Nebraska (2)	1,053	6
4	Oklahoma	1,018	3
5	USC	999	4
6	Pittsburgh (1)	913	5
7	Texas	902	7
8	Notre Dame	835	8
9	Florida State	770	9
10	Georgia	718	10
11	Penn State	569	12
12	Missouri	535	15
13	Washington	462	16
14	North Carolina	434	13
15	Arkansas	326	17
16	UCLA	280	NR
17	Michigan	259	14
18	Auburn	216	19
19	Maryland	83	NR
20	Arizona State	76	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.