AP Poll 12/3

Associated Press Poll

Year: 1973

12/3/1973

Week 13

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	Alabama (34)	1,090	1
2	Oklahoma (16)	1,023	2
3	Notre Dame (2)	810	5
4	Ohio State (2)	799	3
5	Michigan (1)	780	4
6	Penn State (3)	679	6
7	USC	523	7
8	Texas	412	9
9	UCLA	312	10
10	Arizona State	293	11
11	Texas Tech	255	12
12	Nebraska	222	13
13	LSU	193	8
14	Houston	161	14
15	Miami (OH)	85	15
16	NC State	56	16
17	Tulane	44	NR
18	Maryland	30	18
19	Kansas	27	17
20	Tennessee	16	19

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.