AP Poll 11/24

Associated Press Poll

Year: 1980

11/24/1980

Week 12

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	Georgia (59)	1,311	1
2	Notre Dame (3)	1,222	2
3	Florida State (4)	1,206	3
4	Pittsburgh	1,079	6
5	Penn State	990	7
6	Oklahoma	940	9
7	Michigan	902	10
8	Baylor	863	11
9	Alabama	784	8
10	Nebraska	728	4
11	Ohio State	582	5
12	BYU	534	13
13	North Carolina	521	15
14	UCLA	502	18
15	Washington	460	16
16	Mississippi State	378	17
17	USC	282	12
18	Florida	213	19
19	South Carolina	85	14
20	SMU	75	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.