AP Poll 12/6

Associated Press Poll

Year: 1988

12/6/1988

Week 14

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	Notre Dame (49)	1,055	1
2	Miami (1)	994	2
3	West Virginia (3)	950	3
4	Florida State	906	4
5	USC	839	5
6	Nebraska	775	6
7	Auburn	767	7
8	Arkansas	647	9
9	UCLA	643	8
10	Oklahoma	567	10
11	Michigan	534	11
12	Oklahoma State	476	12
13	Clemson	426	13
14	Houston	340	14
15	Wyoming	245	15
16	LSU	225	16
17	Syracuse	195	18
18	Washington State	174	17
19	Georgia	122	19
20	Alabama	118	20

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.