AP Poll 9/25

Associated Press Poll

Year: 1984

9/25/1984

Week 4

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	Nebraska (52)	1,116	1
2	Texas (2)	1,027	3
3	Ohio State (2)	995	5
4	Penn State	834	7
5	Boston College	831	10
6	Washington	830	9
7	Oklahoma	797	11
8	BYU	781	6
9	Florida State	665	15
10	Oklahoma State	597	12
11	SMU	560	13
12	Georgia	557	20
13	Clemson	473	2
14	Michigan	366	16
15	USC	341	17
16	Miami	200	4
17	UCLA	153	8
18	Georgia Tech	100	NR
19	Notre Dame	96	NR
20	Auburn	94	19

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.