AP Poll 12/4

Associated Press Poll

Year: 1990

12/4/1990

Week 14

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	Colorado (42)	1,476	1
2	Georgia Tech (16)	1,397	2
3	Texas (2)	1,338	5
4	Miami	1,303	3
5	Notre Dame	1,252	7
6	Florida State	1,196	8
7	Penn State	1,125	10
8	Washington	1,117	9
9	Houston	945	11
10	Tennessee	944	12
11	Florida	905	6
12	Michigan	833	13
13	BYU	786	4
14	Clemson	737	14
15	Mississippi	535	15
16	Illinois	500	16
17	Iowa	461	18
18	Louisville	450	17
19	Nebraska	406	19
20	Oklahoma	360	22
21	USC	352	21
22	Michigan State	260	23
23	Southern Miss	226	24
24	Ohio State	197	25
25	Alabama	115	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.