AP Poll 11/11

Associated Press Poll

Year: 1940

11/11/1940

Week 5

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	Minnesota (55)	1,314	2
2	Cornell (45)	1,260	1
3	Texas A&M (31)	1,202	4
4	Stanford (12)	1,066	6
5	Tennessee (2)	699	5
6	Michigan	585	3
7	Notre Dame	581	7
8	Boston College	549	8
9	Georgetown	353	9
10	Northwestern	276	10
11	Nebraska	140	13
12	Duke (2)	59	12
13	Fordham	36	17
14	Alabama	26	NR
15	Mississippi State	24	19
16	Santa Clara	19	20
17	Mississippi	15	NR
17	Washington	15	11
19	Oregon State	11	NR
20	Penn State	4	16
20	SMU	4	14

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.