AP Poll 11/18

Associated Press Poll

Year: 1957

11/18/1957

Week 9

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	Michigan State (87)	1,851	4
2	Auburn (88)	1,842	3
3	Ohio State (23)	1,573	6
4	Texas A&M (2)	1,357	1
5	Mississippi (5)	1,074	8
6	Oklahoma (4)	1,062	2
7	Navy (1)	749	9
8	Iowa (2)	659	5
9	Notre Dame (2)	512	NR
10	Army	312	10
11	Duke (1)	200	11
12	Tennessee	175	7
13	Rice	146	20
14	Mississippi State	129	12
15	Oregon	91	16
16	VMI (1)	64	13
17	Arizona State (3)	53	NR
18	Wisconsin	35	NR
19	Michigan	29	18
20	NC State	27	19

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.