AP Poll 10/9

Associated Press Poll

Year: 1984

10/9/1984

Week 6

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	Texas (55)	1,170	1
2	Washington (1)	1,049	3
3	Oklahoma (1)	1,038	5
4	Boston College (2)	1,026	4
5	BYU	932	7
6	Nebraska	869	8
7	SMU	807	10
8	Ohio State	690	2
9	Florida State	646	6
10	Miami	605	14
11	Penn State	566	11
12	LSU	557	15
13	Oklahoma State	469	9
14	Purdue	360	NR
15	Georgia	317	20
16	Auburn	278	18
17	South Carolina	264	NR
18	Florida	167	NR
19	Kentucky	156	NR
20	Georgia Tech	101	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.