AP Poll 12/8

Associated Press Poll

Year: 1992

12/8/1992

Week 15

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	Miami (61)	1,549	1
2	Alabama (1)	1,473	2
3	Florida State	1,419	3
4	Texas A&M	1,387	4
5	Notre Dame	1,295	5
6	Syracuse	1,174	6
7	Michigan	1,141	7
8	Georgia	1,096	8
9	Washington	1,014	10
10	Colorado	1,000	9
11	Nebraska	974	11
12	NC State	848	13
13	Stanford	840	14
14	Florida	745	12
15	Ohio State	716	15
16	Boston College	585	16
17	Tennessee	510	17
18	Washington State	434	18
19	North Carolina	409	20
20	Mississippi	400	19
21	Penn State	272	21
22	Arizona	221	22
23	USC	214	23
24	Mississippi State	171	24
25	BYU	118	25

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.