AP Poll 10/11

Associated Press Poll

Year: 1948

10/11/1948

Week 2

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	North Carolina (52)	1,200	2
2	Notre Dame (34)	1,180	1
3	Northwestern (25)	1,172	3
4	Michigan (24)	1,103	7
5	Army (5)	733	5
6	California (10)	720	9
7	Georgia Tech	589	6
8	Pennsylvania (7)	388	12
9	Penn State (1)	342	10
10	Mississippi	136	14
11	Minnesota	121	8
12	Missouri (1)	117	NR
13	Cornell	97	NR
14	SMU	74	4
15	Clemson	64	NR
16	Georgia	58	NR
17	Nevada	44	19
18	Duke	42	NR
19	Baylor	41	NR
20	Oklahoma	32	NR

Associated Press Poll
Started in 1936.

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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.