AP Poll 10/22

Associated Press Poll

Year: 1985

10/22/1985

Week 8

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	Iowa (60)	1,200	1
2	Florida	1,086	5
3	Penn State	1,007	6
4	Michigan	986	2
5	Nebraska	946	7
6	Auburn	864	8
7	BYU	761	9
8	Air Force	750	10
9	Ohio State	676	11
10	Oklahoma	598	3
11	Florida State	553	13
12	Oklahoma State	514	12
13	Baylor	465	14
14	Arkansas	435	4
15	Miami	396	NR
16	Tennessee	317	20
17	UCLA	264	18
18	LSU	243	17
19	Texas	220	NR
20	Minnesota	89	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.