AP Poll 10/28

Associated Press Poll

Year: 1957

10/28/1957

Week 6

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	Texas A&M (59)	1,457	2
2	Oklahoma (51)	1,418	1
3	Iowa (20)	1,138	3
4	Auburn (19)	1,001	5
5	Notre Dame (4)	891	7
6	Michigan State (3)	770	8
7	Duke (3)	656	4
8	Ohio State (1)	324	12
9	Army	243	9
10	NC State	200	11
11	Arkansas (5)	173	NR
12	Michigan	145	20
13	Texas	108	19
14	Mississippi	99	6
15	Oregon	77	18
16	Navy (1)	72	17
17	Tennessee	63	NR
18	Colorado	32	NR
19	Florida	30	NR
20	Dartmouth	18	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.