AP Poll 10/19

Associated Press Poll

Year: 1959

10/19/1959

Week 5

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	LSU (68)	1,238	1
2	Northwestern (23)	1,171	2
3	Texas (8)	1,010	3
4	Mississippi (18)	989	5
5	USC (12)	769	7
6	Syracuse (4)	673	8
7	Auburn (5)	462	11
8	Penn State (3)	313	10
9	Georgia Tech	280	4
10	Arkansas (1)	213	12
11	Oregon (1)	192	NR
12	Wisconsin	170	NR
13	Illinois	118	13
14	Purdue	87	6
15	Iowa	68	9
16	TCU	66	NR
17	Clemson	60	15
18	Oklahoma	56	NR
19	Yale (1)	52	NR
20	Ohio State	43	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.