AP Poll 11/23

Associated Press Poll

Year: 1936

11/23/1936

Week 6

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	Minnesota (30)	391	2
2	LSU (10)	338	5
3	Alabama	281	8
4	Pittsburgh	275	4
5	Santa Clara (1)	201	9
6	Washington	191	6
7	Northwestern	151	1
8	Fordham	129	3
9	Notre Dame (1)	128	11
10	Nebraska	50	13
11	Duke	44	16
12	Duquesne	31	20
13	Pennsylvania	24	10
14	Dartmouth	19	12
15	Marquette	15	7
16	Yale	14	NR
17	Tennessee	10	19
18	TCU	9	NR
19	Tulane	7	NR
20	Washington State	6	15

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.