AP Poll 11/25

Associated Press Poll

Year: 1946

11/25/1946

Week 8

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	Army (72)	1,173	1
2	Notre Dame (38)	1,144	2
3	Georgia (5)	902	3
4	UCLA (5)	838	4
5	Illinois	590	5
6	Michigan	510	8
7	Georgia Tech (1)	452	6
8	Tennessee (1)	356	7
9	LSU	155	9
10	Arkansas	95	11
11	North Carolina	94	14
12	Yale	80	15
13	Rice	76	12
14	Pennsylvania	75	13
15	Delaware (2)	47	16
16	USC	37	10
17	Boston College	20	NR
17	Oklahoma	20	18
19	Mississippi State	19	NR
20	Texas	18	17

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.