AP Poll 11/9

Associated Press Poll

Year: 1953

11/9/1953

Week 7

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	Notre Dame (79)	1,159	1
2	Maryland (24)	1,034	2
3	Illinois (4)	919	4
4	Michigan State (1)	741	5
5	Georgia Tech	650	6
6	Oklahoma (1)	591	8
7	UCLA	467	9
8	West Virginia (11)	455	7
9	Baylor	402	3
10	Texas	240	19
11	Mississippi (2)	127	12
12	USC	121	18
13	Kentucky (1)	81	14
14	Duke	68	10
15	Minnesota	52	13
16	Rice	50	NR
16	Stanford	50	11
18	Tennessee	49	NR
19	Texas Tech	47	NR
20	Auburn	23	15

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.