AP Poll 10/22

Associated Press Poll

Year: 1951

10/22/1951

Week 4

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	Tennessee (70)	1,354	2
2	Michigan State (28)	1,204	3
3	Georgia Tech (16)	1,022	5
4	Illinois (12)	878	8
5	Maryland (13)	841	7
6	USC (13)	711	11
7	Baylor (2)	621	10
8	Princeton (2)	528	9
9	California (1)	435	1
10	Texas	182	4
11	Stanford (1)	164	13
12	Cornell (1)	131	14
13	Northwestern	122	18
14	Wisconsin	98	NR
15	Notre Dame	97	NR
16	Texas A&M (1)	91	6
17	Kentucky (1)	47	NR
18	Washington State	38	NR
19	Arkansas	26	NR
20	San Fransisco	18	NR

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.