AP Poll 8/31

Associated Press Poll

Year: 1993

8/31/1993

Week 1

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	Florida State (47)	1,531	1
2	Alabama (11)	1,469	2
3	Miami (2)	1,415	5
3	Michigan (2)	1,415	3
5	Texas A&M	1,241	4
6	Syracuse (1)	1,195	6
7	Notre Dame	1,120	7
8	Florida	1,043	9
9	Nebraska	1,039	8
10	Tennessee	1,004	10
11	Colorado	977	11
12	Washington	824	12
13	Arizona	748	14
14	Georgia	732	13
15	Stanford (1)	670	15
16	North Carolina	628	20
17	Penn State	584	16
18	Ohio State	487	17
19	BYU	366	19
20	Boston College	319	21
21	Oklahoma	304	22
22	Clemson	265	23
23	Mississippi State	176	24
24	NC State	158	25
25	Fresno State	90	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.