AP Poll 10/31

Associated Press Poll

Year: 1983

10/31/1983

Week 9

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	Nebraska (57)	1,178	1
2	Texas (2)	1,123	2
3	Auburn	1,048	4
4	Georgia	954	6
5	Miami	952	7
6	Illinois	895	9
7	Maryland	754	13
8	SMU	750	10
9	Florida	676	5
10	North Carolina	620	3
11	Oklahoma	526	14
12	BYU	446	15
13	Michigan	404	8
14	Ohio State	398	16
15	Iowa	391	17
16	Boston College	326	19
17	West Virginia	213	12
18	Notre Dame	179	20
19	Alabama	171	18
20	Washington	128	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.