AP Poll 11/23

Associated Press Poll

Year: 1942

11/23/1942

Week 7

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	Boston College (47)	1,078	3
2	Georgia Tech (50)	1,044	2
3	Ohio State (16)	904	5
4	Wisconsin (2)	694	7
5	Georgia (1)	616	1
6	Tulsa (1)	577	6
7	Alabama	288	9
8	Notre Dame	281	8
9	Michigan	279	4
10	Tennessee	197	11
11	UCLA	88	20
12	Santa Clara	72	14
12	Stanford	72	NR
14	USC	34	16
15	Washington State (1)	29	12
16	Auburn	20	NR
16	Mississippi State	20	NR
18	Texas	19	15
19	William & Mary	17	13
20	Minnesota	16	10

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.