AP Poll 11/25

Associated Press Poll

Year: 1986

11/25/1986

Week 12

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	Miami (54)	1,156	1
2	Penn State (4)	1,090	2
3	Oklahoma	1,056	3
4	Michigan	878	6
5	LSU	862	8
6	Nebraska	834	5
7	Alabama	763	9
8	Arizona State	723	4
9	Arkansas	670	11
10	Texas A&M	625	13
11	Ohio State	606	7
12	Arizona	589	14
13	Washington	568	12
14	Auburn	416	15
15	UCLA	346	18
16	Baylor	315	17
17	USC	168	10
18	Georgia	153	20
19	NC State	66	NR
20	Iowa	63	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.