AP Poll 11/14

Associated Press Poll

Year: 1949

11/14/1949

Week 7

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	Notre Dame (140)	1,592	1
2	Oklahoma (15)	1,298	3
3	California (5)	1,252	4
4	Army (1)	1,130	2
5	Michigan	768	5
6	Rice	566	7
7	Ohio State	486	11
8	Minnesota	428	9
9	Virginia (1)	276	10
10	SMU	194	12
11	Kentucky	150	14
12	Stanford	105	17
13	LSU	87	16
14	Dartmouth	75	NR
15	Baylor	64	NR
16	Maryland	52	NR
17	Cornell	49	6
18	Michigan State	46	8
19	Santa Clara	44	20
19	Tulane	44	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.