AP Poll 10/24

Associated Press Poll

Year: 1949

10/24/1949

Week 4

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	Notre Dame (120)	1,387	1
2	Army (12)	1,218	2
3	Oklahoma (10)	1,143	4
4	California	919	5
5	Rice	468	9
6	Michigan	451	12
7	Minnesota	423	3
8	Cornell	357	8
9	Pennsylvania	284	14
10	Baylor	261	11
11	SMU	148	17
12	Michigan State (1)	130	15
13	North Carolina	114	6
14	Kentucky	83	7
15	USC	75	19
16	Missouri	52	18
17	LSU	41	NR
18	Ohio State	39	NR
19	Texas	31	10
20	UCLA	26	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.