AP Poll 10/9

Associated Press Poll

Year: 1990

10/9/1990

Week 6

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	Michigan (34)	1,453	3
2	Virginia (14)	1,384	4
3	Miami (6)	1,324	9
4	Oklahoma (1)	1,244	7
5	Tennessee (1)	1,235	6
6	Auburn	1,176	5
7	Nebraska (2)	1,145	8
8	Notre Dame	1,122	1
9	Florida (1)	1,017	10
10	Florida State	993	2
11	Illinois	796	14
12	Houston (1)	763	13
13	BYU	751	11
14	Colorado	705	12
15	Clemson	690	16
16	USC	667	15
17	Washington	648	17
18	Georgia Tech	451	23
19	Oregon	424	22
20	Texas A&M	395	19
21	Arizona	319	25
22	Indiana	212	NR
23	Wyoming	132	NR
24	Mississippi	93	NR
25	Iowa	86	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.