AP Poll 11/17

Associated Press Poll

Year: 1987

11/17/1987

Week 11

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	Nebraska (32)	1,164	2
2	Oklahoma (20)	1,128	1
3	Miami (8)	1,101	3
4	Florida State	1,025	4
5	UCLA	958	5
6	Syracuse	894	6
7	Notre Dame	834	7
8	Clemson	714	9
9	LSU	697	10
10	Auburn	689	12
11	Michigan State	611	13
12	South Carolina	530	14
13	Oklahoma State	405	17
14	Georgia	371	8
15	Tennessee	332	18
16	Texas A&M	319	19
17	Alabama	220	11
18	Iowa	130	NR
19	Pittsburgh	103	NR
20	Indiana	81	16

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.