AP Poll 10/28

Associated Press Poll

Year: 1991

10/28/1991

Week 9

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	Florida State (53)	1,492	1
2	Miami (3)	1,415	2
3	Washington (4)	1,412	3
4	Michigan	1,312	4
5	Notre Dame	1,247	5
6	Florida	1,210	6
7	Alabama	1,058	7
8	Penn State	1,046	8
9	Nebraska	1,002	9
10	California	991	10
11	Iowa	910	11
12	Texas A&M	822	13
13	Ohio State	743	14
14	Tennessee	693	15
15	Colorado	657	16
16	Clemson	570	19
17	East Carolina	535	20
18	Syracuse	486	18
19	NC State	401	12
20	Oklahoma	378	21
21	Baylor	287	22
22	Georgia	251	24
23	UCLA	156	NR
24	Arkansas	140	25
25	Fresno State	97	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.