AP Poll 11/22

Associated Press Poll

Year: 1937

11/22/1937

Week 6

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	Pittsburgh (38)	468	1
2	California (10)	425	2
3	Fordham	336	4
4	Alabama	320	3
5	Minnesota	202	7
6	Dartmouth	186	9
7	Villanova	141	10
8	Santa Clara	126	6
9	Notre Dame	101	12
10	LSU	100	8
11	Nebraska	70	11
12	Vanderbilt	27	18
13	Washington	20	NR
14	TCU	16	NR
14	Yale	16	5
16	Colorado	14	16
17	Holy Cross	12	14
18	Duke	11	NR
18	North Carolina	11	17
20	Tulsa	8	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.