AP Poll 11/22

Associated Press Poll

Year: 1982

11/22/1982

Week 12

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	Georgia (52)	1,133	1
2	Penn State (2)	1,057	3
3	Nebraska (3)	1,018	4
4	SMU	969	2
5	Pittsburgh	898	6
6	Arizona State	817	8
7	LSU	749	12
8	UCLA	706	11
9	Arkansas	676	9
10	Clemson	654	10
11	Oklahoma	551	14
12	West Virginia	449	16
13	Washington	444	5
14	Texas	333	17
15	Florida State	323	7
16	Maryland	253	19
17	USC	245	15
18	Ohio State	143	NR
19	Tulsa	129	20
20	Michigan	125	13

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.