AP Poll 11/25

Associated Press Poll

Year: 1940

11/25/1940

Week 7

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	Minnesota (88)	1,562	1
2	Texas A&M (41)	1,476	2
3	Stanford (15)	1,264	3
4	Boston College (15)	1,114	4
5	Michigan (3)	1,042	7
6	Tennessee (8)	959	6
7	Northwestern	396	10
8	Nebraska	391	8
9	Georgetown	229	9
10	Pennsylvania	227	12
11	Mississippi State	178	16
12	Washington	135	13
13	Cornell	87	5
14	Fordham	85	15
15	Santa Clara	59	19
16	SMU	34	18
17	Alabama	17	17
18	Lafayette	7	NR
18	Texas Tech	7	21
20	Duke	5	NR
20	Hardin-Simmons	5	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.