AP Poll 11/8

Associated Press Poll

Year: 1943

11/8/1943

Week 6

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	Notre Dame (91)	910	1
2	Purdue	570	2
3	Navy	518	7
4	Michigan	486	6
5	Iowa Pre-Flight	459	8
6	Army	404	3
7	Duke	308	9
8	Northwestern	285	12
9	USC	250	4
10	Pennsylvania	131	5
11	College of Pacific	113	10
12	Washington	79	11
13	Del Monte Pre-Flight	78	14
14	Texas A&M	56	16
15	March Field 4th AF	48	NR
16	Texas	34	13
17	Tulsa	31	19
18	Dartmouth	30	NR
19	Georgia Tech	23	NR
20	San Diego Naval	20	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.