AP Poll 10/10

Associated Press Poll

Year: 1949

10/10/1949

Week 2

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	Notre Dame (67)	1,489	2
2	Army (58)	1,459	7
3	Oklahoma (28)	1,205	3
4	Tulane (1)	1,052	4
5	Minnesota (6)	900	5
6	North Carolina (3)	594	6
7	Michigan	476	1
8	Kentucky (8)	436	15
9	California	358	10
10	SMU (1)	341	9
11	Ohio State	206	11
12	USC	181	8
13	UCLA	125	18
14	Cornell	98	17
15	Pittsburgh	65	19
16	Texas	63	12
17	Villanova	43	16
18	Navy	36	NR
19	Michigan State	30	13
20	Baylor	25	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.