AP Poll 10/17

Associated Press Poll

Year: 1949

10/17/1949

Week 3

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	Notre Dame (146)	1,745	1
2	Army (10)	1,552	2
3	Minnesota (8)	1,370	5
4	Oklahoma (6)	1,171	3
5	California	875	9
6	North Carolina (6)	856	6
7	Kentucky (3)	798	8
8	Cornell	345	14
9	Rice	166	NR
10	Texas	136	16
11	Baylor	120	20
12	Michigan	119	7
13	Northwestern	99	NR
14	Pennsylvania	71	NR
15	Michigan State	67	19
16	Pittsburgh	65	15
17	SMU	42	10
18	Missouri	37	NR
19	USC	36	12
20	Tulane	35	4

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.