AP Poll 11/7

Associated Press Poll

Year: 1989

11/7/1989

Week 10

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	Notre Dame (56)	1,496	1
2	Colorado (4)	1,441	2
3	Michigan	1,343	4
4	Alabama	1,310	5
5	Florida State	1,220	6
6	Nebraska	1,180	3
7	Miami	1,147	7
8	Illinois	1,104	8
9	USC	1,042	9
10	Arkansas	921	11
11	Tennessee	902	10
12	Auburn	829	12
13	Penn State	744	16
14	Pittsburgh	683	14
15	Houston	610	17
16	Texas A&M	590	20
17	Clemson	557	21
18	Virginia	436	24
19	West Virginia	412	13
20	Florida	317	19
21	BYU	193	23
22	NC State	156	18
23	Texas Tech	145	NR
24	Fresno State	140	25
25	Arizona	124	15

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.