AP Poll 11/1

Associated Press Poll

Year: 1954

11/1/1954

Week 7

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	UCLA (72)	1,931	3
2	Ohio State (69)	1,903	1
3	Oklahoma (42)	1,666	2
4	Arkansas (16)	1,494	4
5	Notre Dame (4)	957	6
6	Miami (14)	870	10
7	Army (1)	755	5
8	Purdue	685	9
9	Mississippi (2)	529	12
10	USC	347	13
11	Duke	174	16
12	Iowa	168	NR
13	Cincinnati	94	20
14	Minnesota	80	NR
15	Rice	75	19
16	Wisconsin	67	8
17	West Virginia (1)	58	7
18	Virginia Tech	55	14
19	Navy	28	15
20	Baylor	26	NR
20	Nebraska	26	NR
20	Pittsburgh	26	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.