AP Poll 10/2

Associated Press Poll

Year: 1984

10/2/1984

Week 5

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	Texas (51)	1,183	2
2	Ohio State (5)	1,113	3
3	Washington (1)	1,008	6
4	Boston College (2)	1,005	5
5	Oklahoma (1)	959	7
6	Florida State	846	9
7	BYU	836	8
8	Nebraska	794	1
9	Oklahoma State	751	10
10	SMU	691	11
11	Penn State	502	4
12	Georgia Tech	474	18
13	Michigan	462	14
14	Miami	382	16
15	LSU	319	NR
16	Notre Dame	206	19
17	UCLA	198	17
18	Auburn	179	20
19	Vanderbilt	134	NR
20	Georgia	97	12

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.