AP Poll 10/8

Associated Press Poll

Year: 1951

10/8/1951

Week 2

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	Michigan State (42)	971	1
2	California (36)	961	2
3	Tennessee (18)	821	3
4	Texas A&M (3)	594	10
5	Notre Dame (4)	552	5
6	Texas (4)	532	6
7	Illinois	352	8
8	Georgia Tech (3)	275	11
9	Ohio State	233	7
10	Maryland (1)	228	9
11	Oklahoma	102	4
12	Baylor	100	19
13	Princeton	86	14
14	USC	63	NR
15	Holy Cross	51	NR
16	Clemson	41	18
17	Cornell	30	NR
18	Oregon State	26	15
19	Stanford	20	NR
20	College of Pacific (1)	16	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.