AP Poll 9/24

Associated Press Poll

Year: 1985

9/24/1985

Week 4

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	Auburn (26)	1,083	1
2	Oklahoma (21)	1,076	2
3	Iowa (5)	1,008	4
4	Florida State	877	6
5	Ohio State	807	7
6	SMU (3)	787	5
7	Oklahoma State	695	8
8	LSU	681	9
9	Penn State	624	10
10	Arkansas	515	14
11	Florida	503	11
12	Michigan (1)	475	19
13	UCLA	467	12
14	BYU	443	13
15	Alabama	413	16
16	Nebraska	404	18
17	Maryland (1)	351	17
18	USC	328	3
19	Air Force	109	NR
20	Virginia	73	NR

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.