AP Poll 11/27

Associated Press Poll

Year: 1990

11/27/1990

Week 13

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	Colorado (41)	1,468	1
2	Georgia Tech (10)	1,338	3
3	Miami (2)	1,332	2
4	BYU (3)	1,275	4
5	Texas (3)	1,260	6
6	Florida (1)	1,218	5
7	Notre Dame	1,170	7
8	Florida State	1,060	8
9	Washington	1,051	9
10	Penn State	1,026	11
11	Houston	862	12
12	Tennessee	856	14
13	Michigan	793	15
14	Clemson	707	16
15	Mississippi	487	21
16	Illinois	449	22
17	Louisville	444	20
18	Iowa	402	13
19	Nebraska	397	10
20	Auburn	339	23
21	USC	292	18
22	Oklahoma	259	NR
23	Michigan State	231	24
24	Southern Miss	216	25
25	Ohio State	194	19

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.