AP Poll 11/21

Associated Press Poll

Year: 1989

11/21/1989

Week 12

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	Notre Dame (57)	1,497	1
2	Colorado (3)	1,439	2
3	Michigan	1,359	3
4	Alabama	1,319	4
5	Florida State	1,244	5
6	Nebraska	1,200	6
7	Miami	1,169	7
8	Tennessee	1,065	9
9	Arkansas	988	10
10	Auburn	925	11
11	Illinois	907	12
12	USC	815	8
13	Houston	730	13
14	Texas A&M	716	14
15	Clemson	670	15
16	Virginia	603	16
17	West Virginia	413	18
18	Texas Tech	390	20
19	Pittsburgh	384	19
20	Ohio State	375	22
21	BYU	330	21
22	Penn State	314	17
23	Duke	231	25
24	Hawaii	182	24
25	Michigan State	131	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.