AP Poll 12/8

Associated Press Poll

Year: 1987

12/8/1987

Week 14

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	Oklahoma (47)	1,129	1
2	Miami (9)	1,088	2
3	Florida State	1,018	3
4	Syracuse (1)	955	4
5	Nebraska	926	5
6	Auburn	847	6
7	LSU	794	7
8	Michigan State	687	9
9	South Carolina	653	8
10	UCLA	642	10
11	Oklahoma State	509	11
12	Notre Dame	467	12
13	Texas A&M	400	15
14	Clemson	392	13
15	Georgia	370	14
16	USC	296	17
17	Tennessee	274	16
18	Iowa	165	18
19	Pittsburgh	131	19
20	Penn State	96	20

Associated Press Poll
Started in 1936.

More Info

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.