AP Poll 9/6

Associated Press Poll

Year: 1982

9/6/1982

Week 1

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	Pittsburgh (33)	1,082	1
2	Washington (16)	1,007	2
3	Nebraska (2)	918	4
4	Alabama (2)	916	3
5	North Carolina (2)	825	5
6	Georgia (1)	811	7
7	Penn State	731	8
8	SMU	722	6
9	Oklahoma	593	9
10	USC	573	10
11	Florida	549	16
12	Michigan	538	12
13	Arkansas	492	13
14	Ohio State	394	14
15	Arizona State	306	19
16	Clemson	236	11
17	Texas	181	17
18	UCLA	173	20
19	Miami	162	15
20	Notre Dame	112	18

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.