AP Poll 11/7

Associated Press Poll

Year: 1983

11/7/1983

Week 10

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	Nebraska (58)	1,198	1
2	Texas (2)	1,140	2
3	Auburn	1,063	3
4	Georgia	999	4
5	Illinois	975	6
6	Miami	951	5
7	SMU	815	8
8	BYU	650	12
9	Michigan	642	13
10	Ohio State	557	14
11	Maryland	530	7
12	Iowa	528	15
13	Boston College	508	16
14	Florida	506	9
15	West Virginia	298	17
16	Alabama	258	19
17	Clemson	257	NR
18	Washington	210	20
19	North Carolina	207	10
20	Pittsburgh	199	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.