AP Poll 11/9

Associated Press Poll

Year: 1981

11/9/1981

Week 10

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	Pittsburgh (53)	1,343	1
2	Clemson (7)	1,272	2
3	USC (8)	1,232	3
4	Georgia	1,129	4
5	Penn State	1,043	6
6	Alabama	935	7
7	Nebraska	793	11
8	SMU	791	10
9	Arizona State	783	9
10	Texas	754	5
11	Michigan	738	12
12	Miami	670	13
13	North Carolina	509	8
14	Southern Miss	465	20
15	Oklahoma	358	17
16	Arkansas	355	19
17	Washington State	222	NR
18	UCLA	180	NR
19	Hawaii	127	NR
20	Florida State	113	14

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.