AP Poll 9/6

Associated Press Poll

Year: 1988

9/6/1988

Week 1

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	Miami (38)	1,149	8
2	Nebraska (14)	1,113	2
3	Clemson (3)	1,003	4
4	Oklahoma (2)	969	3
5	UCLA (2)	941	5
6	USC (1)	878	6
7	Auburn	768	7
8	Georgia	703	12
9	Michigan	639	11
10	Florida State	600	1
11	LSU	587	18
12	West Virginia	438	16
13	Notre Dame	421	13
14	Alabama	411	14
15	Michigan State	381	15
16	South Carolina	335	19
17	Iowa	218	9
18	Penn State	205	20
19	Texas	175	NR
20	Washington	113	NR

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.