AP Poll 10/24

Associated Press Poll

Year: 1983

10/24/1983

Week 8

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	Nebraska (54)	1,156	1
2	Texas (4)	1,106	2
3	North Carolina	1,010	3
4	Auburn	944	5
5	Florida	892	6
6	Georgia	883	7
7	Miami	792	8
8	Michigan	743	10
9	Illinois	688	11
10	SMU	602	9
11	Washington	545	14
12	West Virginia	513	4
13	Maryland	452	15
14	Oklahoma	370	16
15	BYU	350	18
16	Ohio State	309	17
17	Iowa	283	12
18	Alabama	92	20
19	Boston College	79	NR
19	Notre Dame	79	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.