AP Poll 11/28

Associated Press Poll

Year: 1983

11/28/1983

Week 13

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	Nebraska (52)	1,097	1
2	Texas (3)	1,048	2
3	Auburn	973	3
4	Illinois	910	4
5	Miami	885	5
6	SMU	824	6
7	Georgia	732	7
8	Michigan	694	8
9	BYU	649	9
10	Iowa	586	10
11	Clemson	548	12
12	Florida	521	11
13	Boston College	425	15
14	Ohio State	386	14
15	Pittsburgh	289	16
16	Maryland	223	17
17	Air Force	149	18
18	West Virginia	146	19
19	Alabama	126	13
20	East Carolina	93	20

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.