AP Poll Final

Associated Press Poll

Year: 1943

1/5/1944

Week 9

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	Notre Dame (86)	1,259	1
2	Iowa Pre-Flight (12)	1,028	2
3	Michigan (1)	762	3
4	Navy	717	6
5	Purdue (12)	707	4
6	Great Lakes (1)	642	NR
7	Duke (7)	522	5
8	Del Monte Pre-Flight (9)	240	10
9	Northwestern	233	8
10	March Field 4th AF	212	9
11	Army	156	7
12	Washington (1)	115	11
13	Georgia Tech	108	14
14	Texas	80	12
15	Tulsa	77	20
16	Dartmouth	71	13
17	Bainbridge Naval	46	15
18	Colorado College (2)	37	17
19	College of Pacific	36	NR
20	Pennsylvania	31	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.