AP Poll 10/1

Associated Press Poll

Year: 1985

10/1/1985

Week 5

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	Iowa (35)	1,111	3
2	Oklahoma (13)	1,046	2
3	SMU (6)	1,001	6
4	Florida State (1)	928	4
5	Ohio State	921	5
6	Oklahoma State (1)	850	7
7	Michigan (3)	842	12
8	LSU	670	8
9	Penn State	640	9
10	Arkansas	616	10
11	Florida	561	11
12	Alabama	532	15
13	Nebraska	526	16
14	Auburn	482	1
15	BYU	463	14
16	Tennessee	393	NR
17	Air Force	282	19
18	Georgia	116	NR
19	Baylor	94	NR
20	Texas	84	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.