AP Poll 11/20

Associated Press Poll

Year: 1990

11/20/1990

Week 12

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	Colorado (45)	1,476	2
2	Miami (3)	1,344	3
3	Georgia Tech (8)	1,333	4
4	BYU (2)	1,263	5
5	Florida (1)	1,229	6
6	Texas (1)	1,228	7
7	Notre Dame	1,113	1
8	Florida State	1,060	9
9	Washington	1,043	10
10	Nebraska	926	11
11	Penn State	923	18
12	Houston	839	12
13	Iowa	810	13
14	Tennessee	791	14
15	Michigan	634	16
16	Clemson	595	17
17	Virginia	533	8
18	USC	432	19
19	Ohio State	364	21
20	Louisville	330	20
21	Mississippi	301	15
22	Illinois	290	22
23	Auburn	205	24
24	Michigan State	168	23
25	Southern Miss	124	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.