AP Poll 10/27

Associated Press Poll

Year: 1987

10/27/1987

Week 8

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	Oklahoma (40)	1,176	1
2	Nebraska (13)	1,134	2
3	Miami (7)	1,108	3
4	Florida State	986	4
5	LSU	952	5
6	Auburn	900	6
7	UCLA	842	8
8	Syracuse	774	9
9	Notre Dame	732	10
10	Florida	612	11
11	Indiana	546	15
12	Georgia	491	12
13	Tennessee	466	13
14	Clemson	459	7
15	Ohio State	327	16
16	Alabama	279	17
17	Oklahoma State	187	19
18	Penn State	184	18
19	South Carolina	112	NR
20	Michigan State	110	14

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.