AP Poll 10/3

Associated Press Poll

Year: 1983

10/3/1983

Week 5

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	Nebraska (60)	1,200	1
2	Texas	1,138	2
3	Alabama	982	6
4	North Carolina	981	5
5	West Virginia	943	7
6	Ohio State	779	8
7	Auburn	761	10
8	Oklahoma	754	9
9	Florida	687	12
10	Arizona	680	3
11	Georgia	677	11
12	Miami	506	15
13	SMU	485	13
14	Michigan	457	14
15	Iowa	395	4
16	Maryland	243	19
16	Washington	243	18
18	Arizona State	231	20
19	Illinois	101	NR
20	BYU	64	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.