AP Poll 11/7

Associated Press Poll

Year: 1938

11/7/1938

Week 4

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	TCU (48)	986	2
2	Notre Dame (41)	970	4
3	Pittsburgh (14)	790	1
4	Tennessee (6)	667	6
5	Dartmouth	648	5
6	Carnegie Tech	510	19
7	Duke	389	9
8	Santa Clara (1)	379	8
9	USC (2)	289	14
10	Oklahoma (1)	194	11
11	Holy Cross	166	13
12	Minnesota	163	12
13	Fordham	86	10
14	California	62	3
15	Wisconsin	32	NR
16	Alabama	31	15
17	Northwestern	29	7
18	Michigan (1)	18	17
19	Villanova	17	NR
20	Cornell	16	16

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.