AP Poll 9/19

Associated Press Poll

Year: 1983

9/19/1983

Week 3

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	Nebraska (57)	1,178	1
2	Texas (2)	1,112	3
3	Ohio State	1,038	6
4	Arizona	933	7
5	North Carolina	847	10
6	Alabama	790	12
7	Iowa	732	13
8	Oklahoma	700	2
9	Washington	662	16
10	USC	535	14
11	Auburn	525	5
12	West Virginia	506	20
13	Notre Dame	378	4
14	Georgia	375	11
15	Florida	362	15
16	Pittsburgh	347	19
17	Michigan	319	8
18	SMU	315	18
19	Boston College	165	NR
20	Florida State	157	9

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.