AP Poll 11/3

Associated Press Poll

Year: 1980

11/3/1980

Week 9

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	Notre Dame (47)	1,281	3
2	Georgia (15)	1,238	4
3	Florida State (1)	1,094	5
4	USC (1)	1,077	7
5	Nebraska	1,025	8
6	Alabama	986	1
7	Ohio State (1)	908	9
8	UCLA	867	2
9	Pittsburgh	812	11
10	Penn State	717	13
11	Oklahoma	612	16
12	Michigan	420	18
13	BYU	395	17
14	North Carolina	357	6
15	South Carolina	354	14
16	Baylor	335	10
17	Purdue	260	20
18	SMU	242	19
19	Mississippi State	209	NR
20	Florida	138	NR

Associated Press Poll
Started in 1936.

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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.