AP Poll 10/14

Associated Press Poll

Year: 1940

10/14/1940

Week 1

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	Cornell (90)	1,396	4
2	Texas A&M (25)	1,015	1
3	Michigan (26)	1,004	20
4	Northwestern (1)	898	NR
5	Tennessee (7)	772	2
6	Notre Dame (5)	753	13
7	Minnesota (2)	630	NR
8	Boston College	449	11
9	Pennsylvania	354	NR
10	Stanford	267	NR
11	Fordham	195	17
12	Clemson	160	12
13	Mississippi	134	NR
14	Texas	99	NR
15	Ohio State	92	15
16	Washington	72	NR
17	USC	34	3
18	Oregon State	32	NR
19	Washington State	23	NR
20	Iowa	22	9

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.