AP Poll 10/19

Associated Press Poll

Year: 1942

10/19/1942

Week 2

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	Ohio State (58)	1,030	1
2	Georgia (38)	973	2
3	Alabama (8)	822	4
4	Michigan (2)	606	3
5	Illinois (1)	516	5
6	Georgia Tech (1)	487	6
7	Wisconsin (2)	430	7
8	Notre Dame (3)	387	NR
9	Santa Clara (2)	282	15
10	Boston College (4)	248	11
11	Army	227	18
12	TCU	225	17
13	Minnesota	55	14
14	UCLA	50	NR
15	Texas	45	20
16	Mississippi State	31	NR
17	Pennsylvania	26	8
17	Tennessee	26	16
19	North Carolina	13	NR
20	Syracuse	12	NR

Associated Press Poll
Started in 1936.

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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.