AP Poll Final

Associated Press Poll

Year: 1939

1/5/1940

Week 9

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	Texas A&M (55)	1,091	1
2	Tennessee (26)	970	2
3	USC (9)	891	3
4	Cornell (16)	889	4
5	Tulane	804	5
6	Missouri	318	7
7	UCLA	290	9
8	Duke (2)	232	6
9	Iowa	221	8
10	Duquesne	130	10
11	Boston College	121	14
12	Clemson	112	15
13	Notre Dame	92	11
14	Santa Clara	87	16
15	Ohio State	70	12
16	Georgia Tech	59	13
17	Fordham	26	18
18	Nebraska	22	17
19	Oklahoma	20	NR
20	Michigan	18	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.