AP Poll 12/1

Associated Press Poll

Year: 1947

12/1/1947

Week 9

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	Notre Dame (59)	1,184	1
2	Michigan (55)	1,176	2
3	USC (2)	836	4
4	SMU	745	3
5	Penn State	651	5
6	Texas (2)	565	7
7	Alabama	531	6
8	Pennsylvania	473	8
9	Georgia Tech	208	9
10	North Carolina (9)	207	10
11	Army	121	12
12	Mississippi	80	15
13	Kansas	64	13
13	William & Mary (3)	64	14
15	California	55	11
16	NC State	12	NR
17	Rice	11	18
18	Oklahoma	10	20
19	UCLA	8	17
20	Catawba	7	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.