AP Poll 11/17

Associated Press Poll

Year: 1958

11/17/1958

Week 9

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	LSU (114)	1,640	1
2	Auburn (21)	1,218	4
3	Army (12)	1,162	3
4	Oklahoma (22)	1,146	6
5	Wisconsin	872	5
6	Iowa (4)	812	2
7	TCU	647	9
8	Purdue (8)	630	8
9	Air Force	498	10
10	Syracuse	460	12
11	Ohio State (6)	426	16
12	Florida	208	18
13	Mississippi	197	7
14	Vanderbilt	164	NR
15	Notre Dame	157	NR
16	Clemson	152	NR
17	North Carolina (1)	128	11
18	Mississippi State	97	NR
19	California	85	NR
20	Northwestern	76	13

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.