AP Poll 11/23

Associated Press Poll

Year: 1953

11/23/1953

Week 9

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	Maryland (154)	2,347	2
2	Notre Dame (47)	2,009	1
3	Michigan State (8)	1,797	3
4	Oklahoma (9)	1,553	4
5	UCLA (4)	1,440	5
6	Illinois	1,111	7
7	Texas	671	6
8	Rice	490	10
9	Iowa (6)	453	20
10	Georgia Tech	415	12
11	West Virginia (17)	399	19
12	Wisconsin	257	8
13	Kentucky (5)	237	13
14	Texas Tech	219	17
15	South Carolina	170	18
16	Auburn (1)	164	14
17	Baylor	96	NR
18	Army	70	NR
19	Stanford	59	16
20	USC	57	9

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.