AP Poll 10/31

Associated Press Poll

Year: 1938

10/31/1938

Week 3

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	Pittsburgh (105)	1,139	1
2	TCU (8)	901	4
3	California	692	3
4	Notre Dame	670	7
5	Dartmouth	624	6
6	Tennessee (1)	610	8
7	Northwestern	406	12
8	Santa Clara	390	5
9	Duke	274	11
10	Fordham	149	9
11	Oklahoma	139	10
12	Minnesota	125	2
13	Holy Cross	42	14
13	USC	42	19
15	Alabama	13	18
16	Cornell	12	17
16	Michigan	12	13
18	Iowa State	11	NR
19	Carnegie Tech	7	16
19	Texas A&M	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.