AP Poll 11/13

Associated Press Poll

Year: 1939

11/13/1939

Week 5

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	Tennessee (66)	1,014	1
2	Texas A&M	877	2
3	USC (10)	846	4
4	Cornell (3)	645	5
5	Oklahoma (2)	631	6
6	Tulane (2)	615	7
7	North Carolina (1)	457	8
8	Ohio State	250	9
9	Notre Dame	244	3
10	Duquesne	129	12
11	UCLA	85	11
12	Missouri	55	NR
13	Duke	52	15
14	Santa Clara	48	16
15	Iowa	37	NR
16	Clemson (1)	33	NR
17	SMU	27	13
18	Holy Cross	15	NR
19	Oregon State	10	NR
20	Dartmouth	6	14
20	Minnesota	6	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.