AP Poll 11/8

Associated Press Poll

Year: 1954

11/8/1954

Week 8

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	UCLA (117)	2,660	1
2	Ohio State (80)	2,594	2
3	Oklahoma (44)	2,292	3
4	Arkansas (43)	2,207	4
5	Notre Dame (3)	1,480	5
6	Army (4)	1,452	7
7	Mississippi (5)	729	9
8	USC	672	10
9	Iowa	564	12
10	Navy	495	19
11	Miami	168	6
12	Cincinnati	155	13
13	Minnesota	148	14
14	Wisconsin	110	16
15	Virginia Tech	95	18
16	West Virginia (2)	92	17
17	Maryland	84	NR
18	Baylor	76	20
19	SMU	65	NR
20	Georgia	62	NR

Associated Press Poll
Started in 1936.

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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.