AP Poll 10/17

Associated Press Poll

Year: 1938

10/17/1938

Week 1

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	Pittsburgh (83)	926	1
2	Minnesota (6)	691	5
3	California (1)	517	2
4	Dartmouth (1)	515	7
5	Notre Dame	500	9
6	Santa Clara	496	10
7	TCU (3)	453	16
8	Tennessee	419	NR
9	Duke	128	20
10	Syracuse	82	NR
11	Fordham	77	3
12	Michigan	48	NR
13	Carnegie Tech	45	NR
14	Oklahoma	40	NR
15	Alabama	34	4
16	Vanderbilt	32	NR
17	Baylor	31	NR
18	Northwestern	23	NR
19	North Carolina	18	19
20	Villanova	9	6

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.