AP Poll 11/29

Associated Press Poll

Year: 1982

11/29/1982

Week 13

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	Georgia (52)	1,115	1
2	Penn State (2)	1,047	2
3	Nebraska (2)	1,004	3
4	SMU	975	4
5	UCLA	863	8
6	Arkansas	831	9
7	Pittsburgh	727	5
8	Clemson	706	10
9	Washington	543	13
10	West Virginia	509	12
11	Arizona State	494	6
12	Texas	481	14
13	LSU	478	7
14	Oklahoma	409	11
15	Florida State	348	15
16	USC	332	17
17	Maryland	240	16
18	Ohio State	167	18
19	Auburn	124	NR
20	Michigan	116	20

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.