AP Poll 9/8

Associated Press Poll

Year: 1992

9/8/1992

Week 2

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	Miami (45)	1,525	1
2	Washington (9)	1,469	2
3	Notre Dame (4)	1,382	3
4	Florida	1,261	6
5	Florida State (1)	1,260	4
6	Michigan (1)	1,256	5
7	Texas A&M (1)	1,213	7
8	Alabama (1)	1,101	9
9	Syracuse	1,061	10
10	Penn State	939	8
11	Nebraska	875	11
12	Colorado	848	12
13	Oklahoma	813	15
14	Georgia	734	14
15	Clemson	684	13
16	UCLA	553	16
17	California	513	19
18	Mississippi State	507	21
19	NC State	505	18
20	Tennessee	351	22
21	Stanford	288	20
22	Ohio State	273	17
23	Virginia	177	25
24	Georgia Tech	165	24
25	BYU	84	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.