AP Poll 11/3

Associated Press Poll

Year: 1958

11/3/1958

Week 7

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	LSU (82)	1,443	1
2	Iowa (54)	1,379	2
3	Army (7)	1,105	3
4	Northwestern	815	11
5	Auburn (7)	812	4
6	Oklahoma (8)	733	7
7	Wisconsin	584	8
8	Purdue	465	10
9	Mississippi	279	6
10	Air Force	228	13
11	TCU	209	18
12	Syracuse (3)	125	NR
13	Rice	116	14
14	Notre Dame	114	NR
15	North Carolina (1)	108	17
16	Ohio State (1)	103	5
17	Clemson	69	19
18	Rutgers (1)	45	20
19	Florida	39	NR
20	SMU	36	NR

Associated Press Poll
Started in 1936.

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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.