AP Poll Final

Associated Press Poll

Year: 1982

1/5/1983

Week 15

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	Penn State (44)	1,089	2
2	SMU (9)	1,023	4
3	Nebraska (2)	978	3
4	Georgia	953	1
5	UCLA	894	5
6	Arizona State	729	11
7	Washington	679	9
8	Clemson	656	7
9	Arkansas	611	14
10	Pittsburgh	593	6
11	LSU	473	13
12	Ohio State	429	17
13	Florida State	380	NR
14	Auburn	360	18
15	USC	337	15
16	Oklahoma	250	12
17	Texas	240	8
18	North Carolina	172	NR
19	West Virginia	154	10
20	Maryland	147	16

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.