AP Poll 10/16

Associated Press Poll

Year: 1944

10/16/1944

Week 2

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	Notre Dame (60)	973	1
2	Army (12)	862	3
3	Randolph Field (22)	682	4
4	Ohio State (4)	631	8
5	Iowa Pre-Flight	400	11
6	Great Lakes (1)	386	5
7	Pennsylvania (3)	328	9
8	Georgia Tech	313	10
9	Navy	308	6
10	North Carolina Pre-Flight	216	2
11	Purdue	128	7
12	California (1)	80	NR
13	Tulsa	79	13
14	March Field 4th AF (1)	75	NR
15	Michigan	59	12
15	USC	59	NR
17	Tennessee	52	16
18	Bainbridge Naval (2)	50	18
19	2nd Air Force	49	15
20	Indiana	47	19

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.