AP Poll 10/5

Associated Press Poll

Year: 1953

10/5/1953

Week 2

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	Notre Dame (84)	1,190	1
2	Michigan State (15)	1,022	2
3	Ohio State (11)	769	6
4	Maryland (8)	733	3
5	Michigan (4)	626	4
6	UCLA (2)	430	5
7	USC (2)	424	7
8	Duke (4)	311	12
9	Baylor	288	10
10	Georgia Tech	277	9
11	Rice	177	14
12	West Virginia (5)	168	13
13	Mississippi State (3)	164	11
14	LSU	84	19
15	Texas	68	17
16	Oklahoma	63	8
17	Pittsburgh	32	NR
18	Northwestern	29	NR
19	Holy Cross	23	20
20	Pennsylvania	21	NR
20	Southern Miss	21	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.