AP Poll 9/23

Associated Press Poll

Year: 1957

9/23/1957

Week 1

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	Oklahoma (65)	720	1
2	Texas A&M	460	2
3	Georgia Tech	374	11
4	Michigan State (4)	354	3
5	Navy (1)	297	12
6	Minnesota (1)	275	4
7	Duke (2)	249	10
8	Tennessee	247	5
9	Oregon State	223	13
10	Michigan	190	6
11	Baylor	169	7
12	Iowa (1)	127	9
13	Texas	60	NR
14	Houston	53	NR
15	SMU	35	NR
16	Pittsburgh	26	8
16	Stanford	26	NR
18	Rice	23	NR
19	Mississippi	21	NR
19	Penn State	21	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.