AP Poll 10/5

Associated Press Poll

Year: 1959

10/5/1959

Week 3

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	LSU (69)	1,064	1
2	Northwestern (30)	1,041	2
3	Georgia Tech	665	7
4	Texas	656	10
5	Mississippi (2)	601	3
6	USC (9)	575	11
7	Purdue	446	NR
8	Tennessee	429	9
9	Wisconsin	233	12
10	Iowa	182	5
11	South Carolina (3)	155	16
12	Syracuse (1)	132	20
13	Oklahoma (2)	110	NR
14	Auburn	88	17
15	SMU	63	NR
16	Penn State (2)	60	NR
17	Florida	56	19
18	Air Force	35	18
19	Arkansas	34	NR
20	Illinois	33	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.