AP Poll 10/28

Associated Press Poll

Year: 1986

10/28/1986

Week 8

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	Miami (55)	1,193	1
2	Penn State (4)	1,107	6
3	Michigan (1)	1,081	4
4	Oklahoma	1,017	5
5	Auburn	986	7
6	Washington	818	8
7	Arizona State	798	9
8	Alabama	792	2
9	Nebraska	684	3
10	Texas A&M	679	10
11	Iowa	602	11
12	LSU	597	12
13	Arkansas	467	14
14	Arizona	428	15
15	UCLA	343	17
16	NC State	262	20
17	Ohio State	188	NR
18	USC	173	NR
19	Mississippi State	93	13
20	Florida State	65	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.