AP Poll 9/26

Associated Press Poll

Year: 1983

9/26/1983

Week 4

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	Nebraska (60)	1,200	1
2	Texas	1,138	2
3	Arizona	1,001	4
4	Iowa	998	7
5	North Carolina	917	5
6	Alabama	880	6
7	West Virginia	750	12
8	Ohio State	709	3
9	Oklahoma	695	8
10	Auburn	693	11
11	Georgia	619	14
12	Florida	586	15
13	SMU	385	18
14	Michigan	384	17
15	Miami	310	NR
16	LSU	284	NR
17	Florida State	215	20
18	Washington	179	9
19	Maryland	157	NR
20	Arizona State	114	NR

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.