AP Poll 10/9

Associated Press Poll

Year: 1950

10/9/1950

Week 2

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	Army (115)	2,101	4
2	SMU (53)	1,990	3
3	Oklahoma (29)	1,387	5
4	Texas (9)	1,217	7
5	Kentucky (11)	837	6
6	Stanford (4)	765	8
7	California (2)	754	9
8	Maryland (8)	684	NR
9	Purdue (1)	616	NR
10	Notre Dame (1)	554	1
11	Washington (2)	444	10
12	Ohio State	254	NR
13	Clemson (4)	211	18
14	Tennessee	205	NR
15	Rice (1)	178	NR
15	Wisconsin	178	NR
17	Cornell (2)	174	16
18	Michigan	164	19
19	Vanderbilt	142	NR
20	Michigan State	101	2

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.