AP Poll Final

Associated Press Poll

Year: 1980

1/5/1981

Week 15

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	Georgia (59)	1,252	1
2	Pittsburgh (4)	1,188	3
3	Oklahoma	1,100	4
4	Michigan	1,033	5
5	Florida State (1)	970	2
6	Alabama	928	9
7	Nebraska	879	8
8	Penn State	797	10
9	Notre Dame	699	7
10	North Carolina	665	13
11	USC	610	12
12	BYU	584	14
13	UCLA	502	15
14	Baylor	494	6
15	Ohio State	389	11
16	Washington	253	16
17	Purdue	198	NR
18	Miami	192	20
19	Mississippi State	159	17
20	SMU	98	19

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.