AP Poll 10/15

Associated Press Poll

Year: 1956

10/15/1956

Week 4

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	Oklahoma (67)	1,173	1
2	Michigan State (45)	1,148	2
3	Georgia Tech (5)	900	3
4	TCU (2)	751	4
5	Ohio State	721	5
6	Mississippi (7)	552	7
7	Tennessee (3)	531	6
8	Michigan	411	12
9	USC	272	8
10	Baylor	168	10
11	Miami (1)	139	11
12	Iowa	72	NR
13	Syracuse	58	NR
14	Texas A&M	41	9
15	Clemson	32	NR
16	Pittsburgh	30	NR
17	Purdue	26	NR
18	Virginia Tech	20	NR
19	Tulane	19	NR
20	South Carolina	16	20

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.