AP Poll 10/17

Associated Press Poll

Year: 1955

10/17/1955

Week 5

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	Michigan (76)	1,603	1
2	Maryland (33)	1,487	2
3	Oklahoma (29)	1,434	3
4	Navy (7)	997	8
5	Duke (15)	907	11
6	Michigan State (4)	801	13
7	UCLA (3)	715	9
8	West Virginia (9)	583	10
9	Auburn (5)	426	17
10	USC (1)	253	16
11	Notre Dame	242	4
12	Texas A&M	137	19
13	Georgia Tech	83	5
14	Colorado	74	20
15	Wisconsin	72	6
16	Baylor	53	NR
17	Boston College (1)	39	NR
18	TCU	30	7
19	Yale	25	NR
20	Holy Cross	19	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.