AP Poll 10/9

Associated Press Poll

Year: 1944

10/9/1944

Week 1

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	Notre Dame (34)	822	1
2	North Carolina Pre-Flight (24)	608	NR
3	Army (3)	575	11
4	Randolph Field (22)	510	NR
5	Great Lakes (3)	450	6
6	Navy	369	4
7	Purdue (2)	346	5
8	Ohio State (2)	296	NR
9	Pennsylvania	275	20
10	Georgia Tech	194	13
11	Iowa Pre-Flight (1)	152	2
12	Michigan	53	3
13	Tulsa	52	15
14	Illinois	35	NR
15	2nd Air Force	34	NR
15	Tennessee (1)	34	NR
17	Wake Forest	31	NR
18	Bainbridge Naval	26	17
19	Indiana	24	NR
19	Wisconsin	24	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.