AP Poll 11/15

Associated Press Poll

Year: 1943

11/15/1943

Week 7

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	Notre Dame (87)	897	1
2	Iowa Pre-Flight	631	5
3	Purdue	585	2
4	Michigan	542	4
5	Navy	508	3
6	Duke (1)	372	7
7	Army	321	6
8	March Field 4th AF	143	15
9	Northwestern	121	8
10	Texas	112	16
11	Washington	97	12
12	Texas A&M	74	14
13	College of Pacific	71	11
14	Del Monte Pre-Flight	65	13
15	Georgia Tech	54	19
16	Tulsa	44	17
17	Bainbridge Naval	33	NR
17	San Diego Naval	33	20
19	Pennsylvania	31	10
20	Dartmouth	29	18

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.