AP Poll 12/3

Associated Press Poll

Year: 1985

12/3/1985

Week 14

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	Penn State (47)	1,164	1
2	Miami (3)	1,063	4
3	Iowa (3)	1,050	2
4	Oklahoma (5)	1,048	3
5	Michigan (1)	935	5
6	Florida	903	6
7	Nebraska	779	8
8	Tennessee	746	10
9	BYU	657	9
10	Air Force	617	11
11	Texas A&M	562	15
12	LSU	531	13
13	Arkansas	416	14
14	UCLA	410	16
15	Alabama	363	NR
16	Auburn	318	7
17	Ohio State	255	19
18	Florida State	140	12
19	Oklahoma State	97	17
20	Bowling Green	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.