AP Poll 11/15

Associated Press Poll

Year: 1982

11/15/1982

Week 11

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	Georgia (47)	1,167	1
2	SMU (8)	1,110	2
3	Penn State (2)	1,007	5
4	Nebraska (2)	998	4
5	Washington	923	7
6	Pittsburgh	860	8
7	Florida State	771	9
8	Arizona State	713	3
9	Arkansas	682	10
10	Clemson	627	11
11	UCLA	578	12
12	LSU	498	6
13	Michigan	495	14
14	Oklahoma	480	15
15	USC	387	16
16	West Virginia	298	19
17	Texas	211	20
18	Notre Dame	199	13
19	Maryland	69	18
20	Tulsa	45	NR

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.