AP Poll 10/20

Associated Press Poll

Year: 1987

10/20/1987

Week 7

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	Oklahoma (42)	1,179	1
2	Nebraska (12)	1,134	2
3	Miami (6)	1,106	3
4	Florida State	977	4
5	LSU	923	6
6	Auburn	893	5
7	Clemson	846	7
8	UCLA	802	9
9	Syracuse	722	13
10	Notre Dame	676	11
11	Florida	579	14
12	Georgia	436	18
13	Tennessee	370	8
14	Michigan State	362	19
15	Indiana	333	20
16	Ohio State	294	17
17	Alabama	171	NR
18	Penn State	170	10
19	Oklahoma State	154	12
20	Michigan	142	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.