AP Poll 10/24

Associated Press Poll

Year: 1989

10/24/1989

Week 8

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	Notre Dame (56)	1,496	1
2	Miami (3)	1,424	2
3	Colorado (1)	1,379	3
4	Nebraska	1,295	4
5	Michigan	1,234	5
6	Alabama	1,217	10
7	Pittsburgh	1,117	8
8	Illinois	997	13
9	Florida State	961	14
10	USC	917	9
11	Tennessee	853	6
12	Houston	814	16
13	Arkansas	683	7
14	Penn State	651	17
15	West Virginia	612	18
16	Auburn	538	11
17	Arizona	535	22
18	BYU	443	21
19	Florida	436	20
20	NC State	313	12
21	Texas A&M	300	23
22	Clemson	266	NR
23	Washington State	246	15
24	Texas	211	NR
25	South Carolina	183	24

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.