AP Poll 11/21

Associated Press Poll

Year: 1938

11/21/1938

Week 6

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	Notre Dame (48)	807	1
2	TCU (28)	746	2
3	Duke (3)	553	4
4	Pittsburgh (2)	523	5
4	Tennessee (3)	523	3
6	Oklahoma	351	7
7	Carnegie Tech	336	6
8	Minnesota	152	NR
9	California	151	9
10	Cornell	147	8
11	Holy Cross	79	10
12	Michigan	52	17
13	Dartmouth	38	14
14	USC	36	13
15	Northwestern	35	16
16	Villanova	33	15
17	Texas Tech	25	19
18	Fordham	21	18
19	Santa Clara	13	11
20	Georgetown	11	NR

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.