AP Poll 11/28

Associated Press Poll

Year: 1989

11/28/1989

Week 13

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	Colorado (53)	1,468	2
2	Alabama (2)	1,351	4
3	Michigan (1)	1,332	3
4	Miami (3)	1,319	7
5	Notre Dame	1,231	1
6	Florida State	1,200	5
7	Nebraska	1,154	6
8	Tennessee	1,045	8
9	Arkansas	1,000	9
10	Illinois	913	11
11	Auburn	893	10
12	USC	802	12
13	Houston	750	13
14	Clemson	684	15
15	Virginia	640	16
16	Texas A&M	534	14
17	West Virginia	499	17
18	Penn State	450	22
19	BYU	401	21
20	Duke	301	23
21	Ohio State	264	20
22	Michigan State	247	25
23	Hawaii	197	24
24	Pittsburgh	180	19
25	Texas Tech	177	18

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.