AP Poll 9/10

Associated Press Poll

Year: 1985

9/10/1985

Week 2

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	Auburn (16)	1,118	2
2	Oklahoma (28)	1,116	1
3	Florida (3)	974	5
4	USC (6)	970	6
5	Iowa (5)	911	4
6	SMU (2)	908	3
7	Florida State	755	17
8	Oklahoma State	741	16
9	Ohio State	686	9
10	UCLA	612	20
11	Penn State	516	19
12	LSU	476	13
13	Notre Dame	456	14
14	Arkansas	439	15
15	South Carolina	329	18
16	BYU	294	8
17	Maryland	251	7
18	Nebraska	240	10
19	Illinois	198	11
20	Alabama	175	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.