AP Poll 10/27

Associated Press Poll

Year: 1952

10/27/1952

Week 5

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	Michigan State (38)	1,042	1
2	Maryland (32)	1,016	2
3	Oklahoma (20)	850	3
4	Georgia Tech (7)	767	5
5	USC (7)	745	7
6	Duke (10)	688	6
7	UCLA (6)	605	8
8	Purdue (1)	164	NR
9	Kansas	138	15
10	Villanova	134	12
11	California	99	4
12	Tennessee	91	13
13	Notre Dame	63	16
14	Texas	58	20
15	Michigan	48	19
16	Virginia	39	9
17	Pennsylvania	26	11
18	Wisconsin	19	10
19	Alabama	18	NR
20	Florida	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.