AP Poll 11/14

Associated Press Poll

Year: 1955

11/14/1955

Week 9

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	Oklahoma (103)	1,844	1
2	Maryland (46)	1,677	2
3	Michigan State (37)	1,669	3
4	Notre Dame (2)	1,193	5
5	UCLA (6)	1,164	4
6	Michigan (1)	867	7
7	TCU (2)	705	8
8	Texas A&M	557	9
9	Ohio State (1)	484	10
10	Georgia Tech	272	11
11	Navy	208	13
12	Auburn (4)	152	12
13	West Virginia (1)	109	6
14	Mississippi	90	14
15	Pittsburgh (1)	80	17
16	Miami (OH)	56	15
17	Tennessee	49	NR
18	Stanford	38	NR
19	Oregon State	27	NR
20	Duke	16	18

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.