AP Poll 12/10

Associated Press Poll

Year: 1985

12/10/1985

Week 15

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	Penn State (45)	1,086	1
2	Miami (2)	1,001	2
3	Oklahoma (5)	978	4
4	Iowa (2)	973	3
5	Michigan (1)	886	5
6	Florida	809	6
7	Nebraska	707	7
8	Tennessee	690	8
9	BYU	633	9
10	Air Force	561	10
11	Texas A&M	556	11
12	LSU	490	12
13	UCLA	387	14
14	Arkansas	381	13
15	Alabama	377	15
16	Auburn	277	16
17	Ohio State	226	17
18	Florida State	130	18
19	Oklahoma State	112	19
20	Bowling Green	74	20
20	Maryland	74	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.