AP Poll 11/27

Associated Press Poll

Year: 1939

11/27/1939

Week 7

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	Texas A&M (27)	939	1
1	USC (25)	939	4
3	Cornell (34)	909	3
4	Tennessee (18)	871	2
5	Tulane (4)	670	5
6	Duquesne	334	12
7	Duke (2)	331	8
8	Missouri	277	10
9	Iowa	129	9
10	Holy Cross	123	11
11	Notre Dame	105	7
12	Ohio State	95	6
13	UCLA	76	13
14	Clemson (1)	46	15
15	Michigan	41	NR
15	North Carolina	40	17
17	Georgetown	33	16
18	Nebraska	30	NR
19	San Jose State	29	NR
20	Santa Clara	22	18

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.