AP Poll 10/28

Associated Press Poll

Year: 1940

10/28/1940

Week 3

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	Cornell (82)	1,462	1
2	Notre Dame (41)	1,316	2
3	Michigan (16)	1,208	3
4	Minnesota (13)	1,044	6
5	Texas A&M (9)	970	4
6	Stanford	738	9
7	Tennessee	665	5
8	Northwestern (1)	639	7
9	Boston College (2)	401	10
10	Clemson (2)	132	13
10	Georgetown (2)	132	15
12	Nebraska	42	18
13	Washington	35	16
14	Navy	23	NR
15	Pennsylvania	17	8
15	SMU	17	19
17	Detroit	11	NR
18	Duke	10	NR
18	Penn State	10	NR
20	Mississippi State	9	NR
20	Santa Clara	9	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.