AP Poll 9/29

Associated Press Poll

Year: 1980

9/29/1980

Week 4

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	Alabama (36)	1,254	1
2	Ohio State (22)	1,245	2
3	Nebraska (7)	1,181	3
4	USC	1,061	5
5	Texas	1,004	7
6	Pittsburgh (1)	992	6
7	Notre Dame	895	8
8	Georgia	864	10
9	Missouri	755	12
10	North Carolina	649	14
11	UCLA	615	16
12	Oklahoma	489	4
13	Miami	399	NR
14	Arkansas	360	15
15	Stanford	342	NR
16	Florida State	308	9
17	Penn State	294	11
18	South Carolina	269	NR
19	Florida	151	NR
20	Baylor	120	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.