AP Poll 11/17

Associated Press Poll

Year: 1992

11/17/1992

Week 12

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	Miami (61)	1,549	1
2	Alabama (1)	1,483	2
3	Florida State	1,391	5
4	Texas A&M	1,388	4
5	Washington	1,281	6
6	Michigan	1,220	3
7	Notre Dame	1,182	8
8	Syracuse	1,156	10
9	Florida	1,013	11
10	Georgia	941	12
11	Colorado	876	13
12	Nebraska	823	7
13	NC State	784	14
14	Stanford	767	15
15	USC	747	18
16	Arizona	639	9
17	Ohio State	618	19
18	Mississippi State	456	16
19	Boston College	358	17
20	Tennessee	350	23
21	North Carolina	270	25
22	Kansas	226	20
23	Penn State	146	22
24	Mississippi	120	NR
25	Wake Forest	111	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.