AP Poll 11/10

Associated Press Poll

Year: 1987

11/10/1987

Week 10

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	Oklahoma (36)	1,164	1
2	Nebraska (15)	1,137	2
3	Miami (9)	1,111	3
4	Florida State	1,021	4
5	UCLA	943	7
6	Syracuse	902	8
7	Notre Dame	856	9
8	Georgia	694	11
9	Clemson	646	10
10	LSU	632	5
11	Alabama	617	13
12	Auburn	567	6
13	Michigan State	460	15
14	South Carolina	450	14
15	Penn State	328	16
16	Indiana	301	18
17	Oklahoma State	258	12
18	Tennessee	166	19
19	Texas A&M	114	20
20	Arkansas	58	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.