AP Poll 9/28

Associated Press Poll

Year: 1953

9/28/1953

Week 1

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	Notre Dame (71)	907	1
2	Michigan State (6)	692	2
3	Maryland (5)	501	9
4	Michigan (3)	403	NR
5	UCLA (3)	391	4
6	Ohio State (2)	380	7
7	USC (1)	346	8
8	Oklahoma	316	6
9	Georgia Tech	242	3
10	Baylor	188	20
11	Mississippi State (1)	176	NR
12	Duke (1)	127	10
13	West Virginia (4)	88	16
14	Rice	76	12
15	Mississippi	68	NR
16	Wisconsin	54	NR
17	Texas	53	11
18	Georgia	49	NR
19	LSU	46	NR
20	Holy Cross	42	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.