AP Poll 11/5

Associated Press Poll

Year: 1956

11/5/1956

Week 7

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	Oklahoma (116)	1,554	1
2	Georgia Tech (30)	1,453	2
3	Tennessee (1)	1,252	3
4	Michigan State (7)	1,102	4
5	Texas A&M (1)	872	5
6	Minnesota	680	8
7	Ohio State (1)	572	6
8	Miami (1)	453	9
9	Syracuse (1)	225	19
10	Michigan	190	17
11	Clemson	158	13
12	Navy (3)	127	NR
13	Florida	119	NR
14	Oregon State	96	18
15	Iowa	83	7
16	USC	76	20
17	TCU	72	NR
18	Colorado	30	NR
19	UCLA (1)	29	NR
20	Pittsburgh	25	11
20	Stanford	25	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.