AP Poll 9/8

Associated Press Poll

Year: 1987

9/8/1987

Week 1

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	Oklahoma (54)	1,154	1
2	Nebraska (3)	1,054	2
3	UCLA (1)	947	3
4	Auburn	937	5
5	Ohio State	857	4
6	LSU	821	6
7	Miami	793	10
8	Florida State	744	8
9	Michigan	723	7
10	Clemson	674	9
11	Penn State	572	11
12	Washington	524	13
13	Arkansas	475	12
14	Tennessee	417	17
15	Arizona State	391	14
16	Notre Dame	198	18
17	Michigan State	161	NR
18	Pittsburgh	159	NR
19	Alabama	155	NR
20	Georgia	112	21

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.