AP Poll 11/15

Associated Press Poll

Year: 1988

11/15/1988

Week 11

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	Notre Dame (40)	1,156	1
2	USC (18)	1,131	2
3	Miami (1)	1,060	3
4	West Virginia	977	4
5	Florida State	937	5
6	UCLA	866	6
7	Nebraska	805	7
8	Auburn	769	9
9	Oklahoma	750	8
10	Arkansas	657	11
11	LSU	524	12
12	Michigan	508	13
13	Oklahoma State	464	14
14	Syracuse	436	15
15	Clemson	377	16
16	Wyoming	223	10
17	Houston	207	NR
18	Alabama	192	18
19	Washington State	122	20
20	Georgia	57	17

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.