AP Poll Final

Associated Press Poll

Year: 1987

1/5/1988

Week 15

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	Miami (57)	1,140	2
2	Florida State	1,071	3
3	Oklahoma	1,008	1
4	Syracuse	966	4
5	LSU	864	7
6	Nebraska	825	5
7	Auburn	795	6
8	Michigan State	768	8
9	UCLA	641	10
10	Texas A&M	629	13
11	Oklahoma State	542	11
12	Clemson	537	14
13	Georgia	423	15
14	Tennessee	379	17
15	South Carolina	306	9
16	Iowa	296	18
17	Notre Dame	219	12
18	USC	158	16
19	Michigan	137	NR
20	Arizona State	48	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.