AP Poll 10/11

Associated Press Poll

Year: 1982

10/11/1982

Week 6

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	Washington (31)	1,045	1
2	Alabama (13)	1,016	4
3	Pittsburgh (9)	996	2
4	Georgia (1)	909	5
5	SMU	811	6
6	Nebraska	752	7
7	Arkansas	710	9
8	Penn State	678	3
9	Notre Dame	672	10
10	Arizona State	660	11
11	North Carolina	572	12
12	UCLA	471	8
13	West Virginia	429	16
14	USC	403	15
15	Illinois	287	20
16	LSU	174	18
17	Miami	149	17
18	Texas	141	13
19	Florida State	110	NR
20	Clemson	89	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.