AP Poll 9/19

Associated Press Poll

Year: 1989

9/19/1989

Week 3

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	Notre Dame (57)	1,497	1
2	Miami (3)	1,424	3
3	Nebraska	1,308	4
4	Auburn	1,290	5
5	Michigan	1,224	2
6	Colorado	1,218	8
7	Clemson	1,166	7
8	Arkansas	1,059	9
9	West Virginia	926	12
10	Syracuse	848	11
11	Washington	790	15
12	USC	746	13
13	Pittsburgh	704	14
14	Tennessee	695	17
15	Alabama	640	16
16	Oklahoma	531	6
17	Houston	471	18
18	NC State	449	19
19	Washington State	339	23
20	Illinois	314	10
21	Texas A&M	259	22
22	Oregon	245	NR
23	Arizona	236	NR
24	UCLA	188	20
25	Ohio State	182	NR

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.