AP Poll 10/19

Associated Press Poll

Year: 1953

10/19/1953

Week 4

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	Notre Dame (51)	1,153	1
2	Michigan State (31)	1,107	2
3	Maryland (27)	1,104	3
4	Georgia Tech (3)	769	6
5	Michigan	683	5
6	Baylor (1)	623	8
7	Illinois (1)	531	9
8	West Virginia (12)	299	10
9	Oklahoma	277	12
10	Navy	198	14
11	USC	162	13
12	UCLA	107	4
13	SMU	71	NR
14	LSU	58	NR
15	Texas A&M (1)	53	NR
16	Duke	33	7
16	Kentucky	33	NR
18	Pittsburgh	29	15
19	Southern Miss	27	18
20	Stanford	21	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.