AP Poll 10/4

Associated Press Poll

Year: 1948

10/4/1948

Week 1

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	Notre Dame (50)	1,200	1
2	North Carolina (55)	1,190	9
3	Northwestern (21)	1,025	NR
4	SMU (13)	882	3
5	Army (7)	725	11
6	Georgia Tech	598	10
7	Michigan (2)	542	2
8	Minnesota	407	NR
9	California (3)	399	15
10	Penn State (2)	305	4
11	Ohio State	253	NR
12	Pennsylvania	237	7
13	Arkansas	114	NR
13	Mississippi	114	13
15	Purdue	61	NR
16	Texas	39	5
17	Indiana	33	NR
18	Harvard	29	NR
19	Nevada	24	NR
20	Tennessee	17	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.