AP Poll 11/28

Associated Press Poll

Year: 1977

11/28/1977

Week 12

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	Texas (49)	1,124	1
2	Oklahoma (5)	940	3
3	Alabama (1)	895	2
4	Michigan	771	4
5	Notre Dame (1)	666	5
6	Arkansas	568	6
7	Kentucky (1)	527	7
8	Penn State	467	9
9	Ohio State	437	8
10	Pittsburgh	299	10
11	Clemson	198	13
12	Nebraska	128	11
13	Washington	124	14
14	North Carolina	118	15
15	Arizona State	109	19
16	San Diego State	78	16
17	BYU	48	18
17	Texas A&M	48	12
19	Florida State	35	20
20	USC	31	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.