AP Poll 10/24

Associated Press Poll

Year: 1938

10/24/1938

Week 2

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	Pittsburgh (90)	989	1
2	Minnesota (1)	681	2
3	California (3)	620	3
4	TCU (3)	572	7
5	Santa Clara (1)	571	6
6	Dartmouth	443	4
7	Notre Dame (1)	437	5
8	Tennessee	413	8
9	Fordham (1)	370	11
10	Oklahoma	116	14
11	Duke	114	9
12	Northwestern	55	18
13	Michigan	36	12
14	Holy Cross	15	NR
15	Villanova	14	20
16	Carnegie Tech	13	13
17	Cornell	12	NR
18	Alabama	11	15
19	USC	10	NR
20	Ohio State	7	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.