AP Poll Final

Associated Press Poll

Year: 1954

1/5/1955

Week 11

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	Ohio State (204)	3,670	1
2	UCLA (133)	3,594	2
3	Oklahoma (35)	3,115	3
4	Notre Dame (9)	2,641	4
5	Navy (4)	2,375	6
6	Mississippi (6)	1,556	7
7	Army	1,060	5
8	Maryland (4)	941	10
9	Wisconsin	925	8
10	Arkansas (4)	516	13
11	Miami (7)	455	11
12	West Virginia (2)	252	12
13	Auburn (1)	233	15
14	Duke	160	20
15	Michigan	156	14
16	Virginia Tech	153	16
17	USC	127	17
18	Baylor	122	9
19	Rice	73	NR
20	Penn State	65	19

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.