AP Poll 10/3

Associated Press Poll

Year: 1955

10/3/1955

Week 3

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	Maryland (88)	1,568	1
2	Michigan (27)	1,223	2
3	Oklahoma (13)	1,146	5
4	Georgia Tech (9)	1,108	3
5	Notre Dame (4)	1,048	4
6	Army (8)	898	6
7	UCLA	516	7
8	TCU (5)	514	10
9	Wisconsin (11)	479	17
10	USC (3)	412	9
11	West Virginia (13)	380	13
12	Navy	289	15
13	Duke (3)	176	16
14	Auburn	66	NR
15	Miami	61	NR
16	Clemson	55	NR
17	Purdue	26	NR
18	Washington (1)	24	19
19	Kentucky	22	NR
20	Stanford	16	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.