AP Poll 10/30

Associated Press Poll

Year: 1984

10/30/1984

Week 9

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	Washington (50)	1,184	1
2	Texas (3)	1,121	3
3	Nebraska (3)	1,076	4
4	BYU (4)	970	5
5	South Carolina	919	9
6	Miami	872	8
7	Oklahoma State	741	10
8	Georgia	714	13
9	Boston College	703	11
10	Oklahoma	586	2
11	Auburn	558	12
12	West Virginia	540	18
13	Florida	425	16
14	Florida State	406	15
15	LSU	357	7
16	Ohio State	341	6
17	Iowa	272	17
18	USC	233	20
19	SMU	166	14
20	TCU	113	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.