AP Poll 11/14

Associated Press Poll

Year: 1989

11/14/1989

Week 11

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	Notre Dame (57)	1,497	1
2	Colorado (3)	1,439	2
3	Michigan	1,360	3
4	Alabama	1,312	4
5	Florida State	1,240	5
6	Nebraska	1,197	6
7	Miami	1,163	7
8	USC	1,076	9
9	Tennessee	991	11
10	Arkansas	979	10
11	Auburn	866	12
12	Illinois	855	8
13	Houston	754	15
14	Texas A&M	680	16
15	Clemson	632	17
16	Virginia	564	18
17	Penn State	425	13
18	West Virginia	393	19
19	Pittsburgh	379	14
20	Texas Tech	334	23
21	BYU	310	21
22	Ohio State	262	NR
23	Fresno State	233	24
24	Hawaii	131	NR
25	Duke	114	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.