AP Poll 10/11

Associated Press Poll

Year: 1943

10/11/1943

Week 2

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	Notre Dame (86)	941	1
2	Army (1)	847	3
3	Navy (1)	669	4
4	Pennsylvania (1)	408	6
5	Purdue	398	7
6	Duke	370	5
7	Iowa Pre-Flight	325	8
8	USC	309	10
9	Michigan	273	2
10	College of Pacific	125	20
11	Del Monte Pre-Flight (6)	124	15
12	March Field 4th AF (4)	110	16
13	Minnesota	109	9
14	Great Lakes	71	12
15	Memphis Naval	51	13
16	Dartmouth	49	14
17	Southwestern Texas	34	11
18	Texas A&M	13	NR
19	Washington	9	NR
20	Georgia	8	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.