AP Poll 10/13

Associated Press Poll

Year: 1987

10/13/1987

Week 6

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	Oklahoma (47)	1,184	1
2	Nebraska (7)	1,122	2
3	Miami (6)	1,111	3
4	Florida State	935	6
5	Auburn	934	5
6	LSU	901	7
7	Clemson	880	8
8	Tennessee	752	10
9	UCLA	713	11
10	Penn State	606	14
11	Notre Dame	544	4
12	Oklahoma State	439	19
13	Syracuse	421	17
14	Florida	398	18
15	Arkansas	285	20
16	Oregon	229	NR
17	Ohio State	211	9
18	Georgia	209	16
19	Michigan State	133	NR
20	Indiana	114	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.