AP Poll 9/17

Associated Press Poll

Year: 1985

9/17/1985

Week 3

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	Auburn (23)	1,137	1
2	Oklahoma (23)	1,125	2
3	USC (6)	1,010	4
4	Iowa (5)	998	5
5	SMU (3)	913	6
6	Florida State	850	7
7	Ohio State	761	9
8	Oklahoma State	697	8
9	LSU	682	12
10	Penn State	610	11
11	Florida	538	3
12	UCLA	487	10
13	BYU	485	16
14	Arkansas	473	14
15	South Carolina	376	15
16	Alabama	360	20
17	Maryland	310	17
18	Nebraska	207	18
19	Michigan	127	NR
20	Illinois	93	19

Associated Press Poll
Started in 1936.

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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.