AP Poll 9/5

Associated Press Poll

Year: 1983

9/5/1983

Week 1

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	Nebraska (44)	993	1
2	Oklahoma (3)	868	2
3	Texas (2)	865	3
4	Auburn (1)	757	5
5	Notre Dame	659	6
6	Michigan	593	10
7	Ohio State	586	9
8	North Carolina	568	11
9	USC	560	8
10	Georgia	528	15
11	Arizona State	459	NR
12	Florida State	408	7
13	LSU	400	12
14	Alabama	340	13
15	SMU	250	19
16	Iowa	215	16
17	Maryland	193	17
18	Florida	179	NR
19	Washington	152	18
20	Penn State	148	4

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.