AP Poll Final

Associated Press Poll

Year: 1955

1/5/1956

Week 11

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	Oklahoma (218)	3,581	1
2	Michigan State (88)	3,204	2
3	Maryland (55)	3,024	3
4	UCLA (9)	2,637	4
5	Ohio State (4)	1,980	6
6	TCU (9)	1,941	7
7	Georgia Tech	1,301	9
8	Auburn (6)	854	10
9	Notre Dame	796	5
10	Mississippi (1)	708	15
11	Pittsburgh (1)	282	13
12	Michigan	217	12
13	USC	149	NR
14	Miami	136	14
15	Miami (OH)	113	16
16	Stanford	94	17
17	Texas A&M	90	8
18	Navy	89	11
19	West Virginia	88	NR
20	Army	66	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.