AP Poll 11/1

Associated Press Poll

Year: 1943

11/1/1943

Week 5

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	Notre Dame (97)	1,005	1
2	Purdue	726	4
3	Army	695	2
4	USC (2)	659	5
5	Pennsylvania (2)	559	6
6	Michigan	470	7
7	Navy	284	3
8	Iowa Pre-Flight	276	9
9	Duke	187	8
10	College of Pacific	155	10
11	Washington	140	11
12	Northwestern	106	15
13	Texas	85	12
14	Del Monte Pre-Flight	57	17
15	Louisiana	32	14
16	Texas A&M	22	19
17	Arkansas-Monticello	20	NR
17	Colorado College	20	16
19	Tulsa	19	13
20	LSU	15	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.