AP Poll 10/12

Associated Press Poll

Year: 1942

10/12/1942

Week 1

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	Ohio State (25)	636	13
2	Georgia (12)	494	14
3	Michigan (12)	418	5
4	Alabama (10)	356	20
5	Illinois (18)	326	NR
6	Georgia Tech (5)	300	NR
7	Wisconsin	296	NR
8	Pennsylvania (5)	289	15
9	Colgate (2)	170	NR
10	Washington State (3)	168	19
11	Boston College (1)	156	NR
12	Vanderbilt	151	NR
13	Duquesne (2)	150	8
14	Minnesota (1)	149	1
15	Santa Clara (1)	140	NR
15	Tennessee (1)	140	18
17	TCU	120	NR
18	Army	65	NR
19	Iowa	51	NR
20	Texas	46	4

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.