AP Poll 12/5

Associated Press Poll

Year: 1989

12/5/1989

Week 14

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	Colorado (55)	1,492	1
2	Miami (4)	1,407	4
3	Michigan (1)	1,374	3
4	Notre Dame	1,323	5
5	Florida State	1,265	6
6	Nebraska	1,198	7
7	Alabama	1,090	2
8	Tennessee	1,069	8
9	Auburn	1,024	11
10	Arkansas	983	9
11	Illinois	931	10
12	USC	831	12
13	Houston	748	13
14	Clemson	681	14
15	Virginia	657	15
16	Texas A&M	570	16
17	West Virginia	490	17
18	Penn State	466	18
19	BYU	378	19
20	Duke	330	20
21	Ohio State	298	21
22	Michigan State	271	22
23	Hawaii	207	23
24	Pittsburgh	190	24
25	Texas Tech	139	25

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.