AP Poll 12/1

Associated Press Poll

Year: 1980

12/1/1980

Week 13

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	Georgia (54)	1,187	1
2	Notre Dame (4)	1,116	2
3	Florida State (4)	1,092	3
4	Pittsburgh	1,007	4
5	Oklahoma	926	6
6	Michigan	865	7
7	Baylor	843	8
8	Alabama	728	9
9	Nebraska	682	10
10	Penn State	627	5
11	Ohio State	550	11
12	North Carolina	498	13
13	BYU	491	12
14	UCLA	459	14
15	Washington	437	15
16	Mississippi State	359	16
17	USC	265	17
18	South Carolina	135	19
19	SMU	124	20
20	Miami	74	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.