AP Poll 11/29

Associated Press Poll

Year: 1988

11/29/1988

Week 13

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	Notre Dame (57)	1,197	1
2	Miami (1)	1,124	3
3	West Virginia (2)	1,069	4
4	Florida State	1,013	5
5	USC	946	2
6	Nebraska	891	6
7	Auburn	865	7
8	UCLA	733	9
9	Arkansas	731	8
10	Oklahoma	649	10
11	Michigan	591	11
12	Oklahoma State	548	12
13	Clemson	488	13
14	Houston	402	14
15	Wyoming	306	15
16	LSU	259	16
17	Washington State	222	18
18	Syracuse	173	19
19	Georgia	149	20
20	Alabama	99	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.