AP Poll 10/20

Associated Press Poll

Year: 1992

10/20/1992

Week 8

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	Miami (31)	1,517	2
1	Washington (30)	1,517	1
3	Michigan	1,399	3
4	Alabama (1)	1,363	4
5	Texas A&M	1,302	5
6	Florida State	1,265	6
7	Georgia	1,109	10
8	Nebraska	1,030	11
9	Colorado	1,018	7
10	Notre Dame	969	12
11	Boston College	915	20
12	Syracuse	881	14
13	Washington State	689	22
14	Penn State	686	9
15	USC	642	18
16	Stanford	618	8
17	Tennessee	594	13
18	Clemson	551	19
19	Georgia Tech	446	16
20	Florida	330	23
21	Arizona	316	NR
22	Kansas	269	25
23	NC State	136	21
24	Virginia	126	17
25	Mississippi State	92	15

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.