AP Poll 10/21

Associated Press Poll

Year: 1991

10/21/1991

Week 8

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	Florida State (56)	1,496	1
2	Miami (2)	1,416	2
3	Washington (2)	1,408	3
4	Michigan	1,308	4
5	Notre Dame	1,249	5
6	Florida	1,212	6
7	Alabama	1,021	14
8	Penn State	1,010	10
9	Nebraska	994	9
10	California	989	7
11	Iowa	888	15
12	NC State	845	11
13	Texas A&M	752	19
14	Ohio State	686	18
15	Tennessee	684	8
16	Colorado	617	22
17	Illinois	514	13
18	Syracuse	412	24
19	Clemson	408	21
20	East Carolina	383	23
21	Oklahoma	311	12
22	Baylor	194	16
23	Pittsburgh	115	20
24	Georgia	114	17
25	Arkansas	85	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.