AP Poll 12/2

Associated Press Poll

Year: 1986

12/2/1986

Week 13

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	Miami (53)	1,155	1
2	Penn State (5)	1,092	2
3	Oklahoma	1,053	3
4	Michigan	984	4
5	LSU	877	5
6	Nebraska	861	6
7	Arizona State	777	8
8	Texas A&M	710	10
9	Arkansas	692	9
10	Auburn	631	14
11	Ohio State	578	11
12	Washington	561	13
13	Alabama	452	7
14	Baylor	337	16
15	UCLA	316	15
16	Arizona	307	12
17	Georgia	234	18
18	NC State	135	19
19	Iowa	127	20
20	Stanford	125	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.