AP Poll 10/18

Associated Press Poll

Year: 1943

10/18/1943

Week 3

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	Notre Dame (98)	1,075	1
2	Army (5)	926	2
3	Navy	643	3
4	Purdue (1)	613	5
5	Pennsylvania (4)	568	4
6	College of Pacific (4)	438	10
7	USC (2)	326	8
8	Iowa Pre-Flight	308	7
9	Duke	292	6
10	Michigan	269	9
11	Minnesota	183	13
12	Southwestern Texas	71	17
13	Texas A&M	58	18
14	March Field 4th AF	45	12
15	Del Monte Pre-Flight	43	11
16	Texas	41	NR
17	Northwestern	34	NR
18	Colorado College	16	NR
19	Memphis Naval	12	15
20	Camp Grant	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.