AP Poll 10/16

Associated Press Poll

Year: 1984

10/16/1984

Week 7

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	Washington (37)	1,135	2
2	Oklahoma (11)	1,072	3
3	Texas (5)	1,057	1
4	Boston College (6)	1,032	4
5	Nebraska	884	6
6	SMU (1)	862	7
7	BYU	843	5
8	Ohio State	744	8
9	Miami	668	10
10	LSU	652	12
11	South Carolina	494	17
12	Oklahoma State	489	13
13	Auburn	460	16
14	Georgia	403	15
15	Florida State	334	9
16	Kentucky	288	19
17	Florida	284	18
18	Iowa	157	NR
19	Penn State	93	11
20	West Virginia	67	NR

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.