AP Poll 11/11

Associated Press Poll

Year: 1991

11/11/1991

Week 11

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	Florida State (53)	1,492	1
2	Miami (3)	1,413	2
3	Washington (4)	1,412	3
4	Michigan	1,311	4
5	Florida	1,259	6
6	California	1,167	7
7	Alabama	1,090	8
8	Penn State	1,044	9
9	Iowa	1,018	10
10	Tennessee	933	13
11	Nebraska	883	11
12	Notre Dame	878	5
13	Texas A&M	867	12
14	East Carolina	636	16
15	Clemson	631	15
16	Colorado	630	14
17	Syracuse	516	17
18	Oklahoma	463	20
19	Ohio State	460	19
20	Baylor	375	21
21	Virginia	349	24
22	Stanford	167	NR
23	BYU	140	NR
24	NC State	96	18
25	Illinois	59	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.