AP Poll 11/21

Associated Press Poll

Year: 1949

11/21/1949

Week 8

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	Notre Dame (113)	1,459	1
2	California (24)	1,266	3
3	Oklahoma (11)	1,173	2
4	Army (1)	963	4
5	Ohio State	618	7
6	Michigan	590	5
7	Rice	519	6
8	Minnesota	368	8
9	Baylor	268	15
10	Tulane	158	20
11	College of Pacific (2)	125	NR
12	Stanford	79	12
13	LSU	71	13
14	Santa Clara	63	19
15	Maryland	54	16
16	Villanova	51	NR
17	USC	41	NR
18	Tennessee	39	NR
19	North Carolina	32	NR
20	Cornell	28	17
20	Kentucky	28	11

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.