AP Poll 11/6

Associated Press Poll

Year: 1990

11/6/1990

Week 10

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	Notre Dame (37)	1,456	2
2	Washington (13)	1,403	7
3	Houston (5)	1,337	6
4	Colorado (5)	1,310	9
5	Miami	1,228	8
6	Iowa	1,129	13
7	Georgia Tech	1,074	16
8	BYU	1,039	10
9	Tennessee	980	11
10	Florida	949	15
11	Virginia	924	1
12	Florida State	845	12
13	Nebraska	818	3
14	Texas	782	14
15	Auburn	650	4
16	Mississippi	600	17
17	Illinois	568	5
18	Clemson	509	18
19	Michigan	438	20
20	Oregon	362	22
21	Penn State	279	24
22	Louisville	224	25
23	USC	148	21
24	Michigan State	106	NR
25	Wyoming	84	19

Associated Press Poll
Started in 1936.

More Info

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.