AP Poll 10/27

Associated Press Poll

Year: 1941

10/27/1941

Week 3

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	Minnesota (60)	1,161	1
1	Texas (53)	1,161	2
3	Fordham (7)	784	6
4	Duke (5)	702	4
5	Texas A&M	663	9
6	Notre Dame	636	7
7	Michigan	396	3
8	Pennsylvania (1)	315	12
9	Northwestern	231	13
10	Vanderbilt	190	15
11	Navy	163	5
12	Stanford	156	19
13	Temple	107	17
14	Army	55	NR
15	Alabama	42	NR
16	Duquesne	24	NR
17	Mississippi	23	NR
17	Mississippi State	23	NR
19	Missouri	22	NR
20	SMU	16	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.