AP Poll 11/22

Associated Press Poll

Year: 1988

11/22/1988

Week 12

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	Notre Dame (35)	1,167	1
2	USC (22)	1,158	2
3	Miami (1)	1,081	3
4	West Virginia (2)	1,016	4
5	Florida State	954	5
6	Nebraska	883	7
7	Auburn	846	8
8	Arkansas	755	10
9	UCLA	720	6
10	Oklahoma	637	9
11	Michigan	590	12
12	Oklahoma State	558	13
13	Clemson	498	15
14	Houston	338	17
15	Wyoming	291	16
16	LSU	235	11
17	Alabama	234	18
18	Washington State	207	19
19	Syracuse	165	14
20	Georgia	106	20

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.