AP Poll 10/13

Associated Press Poll

Year: 1980

10/13/1980

Week 6

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	Alabama (52)	1,327	1
2	USC (8)	1,224	2
3	Texas (4)	1,201	3
4	UCLA (4)	1,186	5
5	Notre Dame	1,052	7
6	Georgia	1,028	6
7	Florida State	921	11
8	North Carolina	856	8
9	Ohio State	819	9
10	Nebraska	811	10
11	Pittsburgh	615	4
12	Penn State	549	14
13	Baylor	472	18
14	Arkansas	463	15
15	South Carolina	461	17
16	Missouri	319	19
17	Oklahoma	229	12
18	Miami	179	13
19	Iowa State	129	NR
20	Stanford	84	16

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.