AP Poll 9/28

Associated Press Poll

Year: 1959

9/28/1959

Week 2

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	LSU (48)	794	1
2	Northwestern (20)	647	10
3	Mississippi (4)	443	4
4	Army	366	7
5	Iowa (4)	359	13
6	Clemson (7)	336	5
7	Georgia Tech	267	16
8	Notre Dame (1)	239	NR
9	Tennessee	229	NR
10	Texas	178	15
11	USC (1)	176	11
12	Wisconsin	134	8
13	Georgia	85	17
14	Ohio State	81	12
15	Navy	64	14
16	South Carolina	63	20
17	Auburn	49	3
18	Air Force	39	NR
19	Florida	36	19
20	Syracuse	21	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.