AP Poll 11/3

Associated Press Poll

Year: 1941

11/3/1941

Week 4

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	Texas (74)	1,148	2
2	Minnesota (35)	1,111	1
3	Fordham (6)	852	3
4	Duke (7)	740	4
5	Texas A&M	585	5
6	Navy	500	11
7	Notre Dame	378	6
8	Michigan	369	7
9	Stanford	354	12
10	Northwestern	197	9
11	Army	158	14
12	Duquesne	89	16
13	Alabama	71	15
14	Tulane	53	NR
15	Mississippi State	24	18
16	Mississippi	22	17
17	Missouri	19	19
18	Syracuse	11	NR
19	Pennsylvania	5	8
20	Ohio State	4	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.