AP Poll 10/17

Associated Press Poll

Year: 1983

10/17/1983

Week 7

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	Nebraska (52)	1,154	1
2	Texas (6)	1,107	2
3	North Carolina	997	3
4	West Virginia	978	4
5	Auburn	888	5
6	Florida	861	7
7	Georgia	795	8
8	Miami	722	10
9	SMU	657	12
10	Michigan	625	13
11	Illinois	555	19
12	Iowa	526	14
13	Arizona State	422	18
14	Washington	359	17
15	Maryland	336	16
16	Oklahoma	253	15
17	Ohio State	243	6
18	BYU	237	20
19	Arizona	186	9
20	Alabama	84	11

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.