AP Poll Final

Associated Press Poll

Year: 1986

1/5/1987

Week 14

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	Penn State (54)	1,137	2
2	Miami	1,064	1
3	Oklahoma (3)	1,045	3
4	Arizona State	938	7
5	Nebraska	937	6
6	Auburn	791	10
7	Ohio State	762	11
8	Michigan	758	4
9	Alabama	680	13
10	LSU	526	5
11	Arizona	494	16
12	Baylor	491	14
13	Texas A&M	458	8
14	UCLA	439	15
15	Arkansas	342	9
16	Iowa	247	19
17	Clemson	209	NR
18	Washington	207	12
19	Boston College	140	NR
20	Virginia Tech	108	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.