AP Poll 9/13

Associated Press Poll

Year: 1982

9/13/1982

Week 2

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	Washington (28)	1,132	2
2	Pittsburgh (16)	1,078	1
3	Nebraska (10)	1,073	3
4	Alabama (6)	1,021	4
5	Florida	886	11
6	SMU	872	8
7	Georgia	846	6
8	Penn State	769	7
9	Arkansas	693	13
10	Michigan	667	12
11	North Carolina	572	5
12	Ohio State	426	14
13	Arizona State	404	15
14	UCLA	358	18
15	Miami	324	19
16	Clemson	291	16
17	West Virginia	279	NR
18	Texas	243	17
19	USC	185	10
20	Notre Dame	119	20

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.