AP Poll 10/26

Associated Press Poll

Year: 1953

10/26/1953

Week 5

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	Notre Dame (82)	1,122	1
2	Maryland (18)	1,016	3
3	Baylor (2)	748	6
4	Illinois	691	7
5	West Virginia (15)	452	8
6	Michigan State	451	2
7	USC	405	11
8	Georgia Tech	376	4
9	Oklahoma (1)	354	9
10	UCLA (1)	235	12
11	SMU	119	13
12	Rice	98	NR
13	Duke	88	16
14	Minnesota	58	NR
15	Army	57	NR
16	Michigan (1)	50	5
17	Stanford	44	20
18	Mississippi	43	NR
19	Kentucky	42	17
20	Navy	41	10

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.