AP Poll 10/3

Associated Press Poll

Year: 1989

10/3/1989

Week 5

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	Notre Dame (57)	1,497	1
2	Miami (3)	1,426	2
3	Colorado	1,344	5
4	Nebraska	1,324	3
5	Michigan	1,234	6
6	Tennessee	1,193	12
7	Arkansas	1,118	8
8	Pittsburgh	961	10
9	USC	939	11
9	West Virginia	939	9
11	Auburn	892	4
12	Houston	879	14
13	Alabama	807	13
14	NC State	669	15
15	Clemson	665	7
16	Oklahoma	637	16
17	Syracuse	496	18
18	Illinois	419	20
19	Texas A&M	375	22
20	Air Force	371	24
21	Washington State	334	19
22	Florida State	171	25
23	Oregon	162	NR
24	Michigan State	128	NR
25	UCLA	103	NR

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.