AP Poll 11/26

Associated Press Poll

Year: 1985

11/26/1985

Week 13

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	Penn State (49)	1,186	1
2	Iowa (3)	1,082	3
3	Oklahoma (6)	1,074	5
4	Miami (1)	1,058	4
5	Michigan (1)	971	6
6	Florida	848	9
7	Auburn	761	10
8	Nebraska	722	2
9	BYU	631	11
10	Tennessee	590	16
11	Air Force	583	13
12	Florida State	581	14
13	LSU	425	17
14	Arkansas	370	18
15	Texas A&M	367	19
16	UCLA	286	8
17	Oklahoma State	269	7
18	Texas	238	NR
19	Ohio State	196	12
20	Georgia	168	20

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.