AP Poll 11/30

Associated Press Poll

Year: 1959

11/30/1959

Week 11

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	Syracuse (95)	1,492	1
2	Mississippi (49)	1,350	2
3	LSU (6)	1,128	3
4	Texas	892	4
5	Georgia (2)	836	6
6	Wisconsin (15)	749	5
7	TCU	562	8
8	Washington (2)	428	9
9	Arkansas	356	10
10	Clemson	190	14
11	Alabama (6)	153	19
12	Illinois (1)	106	13
13	USC	98	7
14	Penn State	84	15
15	Oklahoma	74	17
16	Wyoming	70	NR
17	UCLA	62	20
18	Florida	40	NR
19	Notre Dame	36	NR
20	Missouri	30	18

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.