AP Poll 11/2

Associated Press Poll

Year: 1953

11/2/1953

Week 6

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	Notre Dame (90)	1,243	1
2	Maryland (21)	1,087	2
3	Baylor (7)	906	3
4	Illinois	782	4
5	Michigan State	553	6
6	Georgia Tech	545	8
7	West Virginia (10)	504	5
8	Oklahoma (1)	499	9
9	UCLA (1)	363	10
10	Duke	217	13
11	Stanford (1)	183	17
12	Mississippi (1)	180	18
13	Minnesota	171	14
14	Kentucky	159	19
15	Auburn	97	NR
16	Ohio State	84	NR
17	Michigan	79	16
17	USC	79	7
19	Texas	51	NR
20	Alabama	41	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.