AP Poll 11/22

Associated Press Poll

Year: 1954

11/22/1954

Week 10

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	Ohio State (115)	2,259	1
2	UCLA (85)	2,162	2
3	Oklahoma (31)	1,953	3
4	Notre Dame (4)	1,569	4
5	Army	1,296	5
6	Navy (2)	814	7
7	Mississippi (6)	873	6
8	Wisconsin	507	17
9	Baylor	332	20
10	Maryland	317	13
11	Miami (2)	310	16
12	West Virginia (3)	238	14
13	Arkansas (2)	196	9
14	Michigan	173	12
15	Auburn	142	18
16	Virginia Tech	109	15
17	USC	94	8
18	Kentucky	55	NR
19	Penn State	38	NR
20	Duke	35	NR
20	Minnesota	35	10

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.