AP Poll Final

Associated Press Poll

Year: 1991

1/5/1992

Week 15

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	Miami (32)	1,472	1
2	Washington (28)	1,468	2
3	Penn State	1,342	6
4	Florida State	1,310	5
5	Alabama	1,216	8
6	Michigan	1,151	4
7	Florida	1,119	3
8	California	1,039	14
9	East Carolina	1,024	12
10	Iowa	883	7
11	Syracuse	876	16
12	Texas A&M	870	9
13	Notre Dame	848	18
14	Tennessee	716	10
15	Nebraska	666	11
16	Oklahoma	629	20
17	Georgia	428	24
18	Clemson	410	13
19	UCLA	406	22
20	Colorado	383	15
21	Tulsa	348	23
22	Stanford	262	17
23	BYU	182	NR
24	NC State	109	21
25	Air Force	87	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.