AP Poll 9/16

Associated Press Poll

Year: 1986

9/16/1986

Week 2

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	Oklahoma (55)	1,175	1
2	Miami (1)	1,099	2
3	Michigan	1,000	3
4	Alabama (1)	992	4
5	Penn State (1)	938	5
6	Nebraska (1)	924	6
7	Washington (1)	751	17
8	LSU	747	14
9	Baylor	629	12
10	Auburn	615	9
11	BYU	441	11
12	Arkansas	402	18
13	Florida	396	13
14	Georgia	383	19
15	Florida State	298	15
16	Texas A&M	218	7
17	Arizona	199	NR
18	Arizona State	187	NR
19	UCLA	169	16
20	Notre Dame	143	NR

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.