AP Poll 9/3

Associated Press Poll

Year: 1991

9/3/1991

Week 1

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	Florida State (54)	1,469	1
2	Michigan (1)	1,363	2
3	Miami (1)	1,318	3
4	Washington (2)	1,257	4
5	Penn State	1,225	7
6	Florida	1,148	5
7	Notre Dame	1,113	6
8	Clemson	1,026	9
9	Oklahoma	963	10
10	Houston (1)	933	12
11	Tennessee	883	11
12	Colorado	830	13
13	Texas	792	14
14	Nebraska	638	15
15	Iowa	541	18
16	USC	532	16
17	Georgia Tech	514	8
18	Auburn	432	17
19	Michigan State	411	20
20	Alabama	339	22
21	Texas A&M	313	21
22	Ohio State	234	23
23	UCLA	157	24
24	Syracuse	141	25
25	BYU	122	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.