AP Poll Final

Associated Press Poll

Year: 1941

1/5/1942

Week 8

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	Minnesota (85)	946	1
2	Duke (10)	726	3
3	Notre Dame	675	4
4	Texas (1)	495	10
5	Michigan	455	6
6	Fordham	399	8
7	Missouri (1)	328	7
8	Duquesne	310	5
9	Texas A&M	230	2
10	Navy	221	11
11	Northwestern	167	9
12	Oregon State	133	17
13	Ohio State	81	15
14	Georgia	63	20
15	Pennsylvania	62	13
16	Mississippi State	19	NR
17	Mississippi	10	14
18	Tennessee	8	NR
19	Washington State	7	NR
20	Alabama	6	18

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.