AP Poll 11/15

Associated Press Poll

Year: 1937

11/15/1937

Week 5

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	Pittsburgh (49)	517	1
2	California (6)	434	2
3	Alabama (2)	393	3
4	Fordham (2)	378	4
5	Yale	260	6
6	Santa Clara	172	7
7	Minnesota	143	10
8	LSU	121	12
9	Dartmouth	104	5
10	Villanova	78	9
11	Nebraska	55	11
12	Notre Dame	35	18
13	Stanford	32	NR
14	Holy Cross	26	19
15	Rice	24	15
16	Colorado	21	16
17	North Carolina	19	NR
18	Vanderbilt	18	NR
19	Ohio State	16	NR
20	Indiana	15	17

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.