AP Poll Final

Associated Press Poll

Year: 1990

1/5/1991

Week 15

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	Colorado (39)	1,475	1
2	Georgia Tech (20)	1,441	2
3	Miami (1)	1,388	4
4	Florida State	1,303	6
5	Washington	1,246	8
6	Notre Dame	1,179	5
7	Michigan	1,025	12
8	Tennessee	993	10
9	Clemson	950	14
10	Houston	940	9
11	Penn State	907	7
12	Texas	887	3
13	Florida	863	11
14	Louisville	775	18
15	Texas A&M	627	NR
16	Michigan State	610	22
17	Oklahoma	452	20
18	Iowa	371	17
19	Auburn	288	NR
20	USC	266	21
21	Mississippi	253	15
22	BYU	246	13
23	Virginia	188	NR
24	Nebraska	185	19
25	Illinois	147	16

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.