AP Poll 10/15

Associated Press Poll

Year: 1985

10/15/1985

Week 7

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	Iowa (27)	1,146	1
2	Michigan (20)	1,126	3
3	Oklahoma (12)	1,124	2
4	Arkansas	936	6
5	Florida	905	7
6	Penn State (1)	902	8
7	Nebraska	868	9
8	Auburn	777	12
9	BYU	685	11
10	Air Force	624	13
11	Ohio State	522	15
12	Oklahoma State	493	5
13	Florida State	459	4
14	Baylor	375	19
15	Alabama	364	10
16	Georgia	336	18
17	LSU	212	20
18	UCLA	182	NR
19	Army	146	NR
20	Tennessee	141	14

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.