AP Poll 11/22

Associated Press Poll

Year: 1943

11/22/1943

Week 8

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	Notre Dame (97)	1,014	1
2	Iowa Pre-Flight (1)	821	2
3	Michigan	628	4
4	Purdue	548	3
5	Duke (2)	500	6
6	Navy	432	5
7	Army	410	7
8	Northwestern	197	9
9	March Field 4th AF	166	8
10	Del Monte Pre-Flight	114	14
11	Washington	88	11
12	Texas	79	10
13	Dartmouth	64	20
14	Georgia Tech	36	15
15	Bainbridge Naval	30	17
16	Texas A&M	28	12
17	Colorado College (2)	27	NR
18	Pennsylvania	26	19
18	Randolph Field	26	NR
20	Tulsa	23	16

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.