AP Poll 9/13

Associated Press Poll

Year: 1988

9/13/1988

Week 2

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	Miami (46)	1,082	1
2	UCLA (3)	1,019	5
3	Clemson (3)	940	3
4	Oklahoma (2)	918	4
5	USC (1)	795	6
6	Auburn	758	7
7	Georgia	753	8
8	Notre Dame	643	13
9	LSU	608	11
10	Florida State	599	10
11	Nebraska	581	2
12	West Virginia	495	12
13	Alabama	448	14
14	South Carolina	370	16
15	Michigan	329	9
16	Penn State	321	18
17	Washington	166	20
18	Ohio State	141	NR
19	Iowa	130	17
20	Oklahoma State	111	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.