AP Poll 9/4

Associated Press Poll

Year: 1984

9/4/1984

Week 1

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	Miami (36)	1,040	10
2	Nebraska (7)	949	2
3	Clemson (2)	900	4
4	UCLA (6)	866	5
5	Texas	783	6
6	Ohio State	696	7
7	Notre Dame (1)	619	8
8	Auburn	602	1
9	Alabama (1)	595	9
10	Iowa (1)	581	12
11	Penn State	570	11
12	Arizona State	541	13
13	BYU	438	NR
14	Michigan (1)	400	14
15	SMU	309	15
16	Oklahoma	302	16
17	Pittsburgh	273	3
18	Boston College	257	19
19	Washington	213	18
20	Florida State	202	20

Associated Press Poll
Started in 1936.

More Info

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.