AP Poll 10/22

Associated Press Poll

Year: 1973

10/22/1973

Week 7

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	Ohio State (35)	1,126	1
2	Alabama (12)	1,042	2
3	Oklahoma (8)	953	3
4	Michigan (1)	857	4
5	Penn State (4)	709	5
6	USC	629	6
7	Missouri (1)	541	7
8	Notre Dame	508	8
9	LSU	402	9
10	Nebraska	300	11
11	Arizona State	283	12
12	Houston	280	14
13	UCLA	207	13
14	Tennessee	148	10
15	Tulane	88	17
16	Miami (OH)	31	20
17	Kansas	21	18
18	Texas Tech	20	NR
19	Texas	16	NR
20	Richmond	13	NR

Associated Press Poll
Started in 1936.

More Info

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.