AP Poll 10/27

Associated Press Poll

Year: 1980

10/27/1980

Week 8

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	Alabama (57)	1,289	1
2	UCLA (8)	1,222	3
3	Notre Dame	1,141	4
4	Georgia	1,105	5
5	Florida State	985	6
6	North Carolina	940	7
7	USC	859	8
8	Nebraska	852	9
9	Ohio State	771	10
10	Baylor	719	11
11	Pittsburgh	644	12
12	Texas	623	2
13	Penn State	539	13
14	South Carolina	493	14
15	Missouri	387	16
16	Oklahoma	310	17
17	BYU	197	19
18	Michigan	135	NR
19	SMU	131	NR
20	Purdue	90	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.