AP Poll 10/23

Associated Press Poll

Year: 1944

10/23/1944

Week 3

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	Notre Dame (40)	917	1
2	Army (30)	909	2
3	Randolph Field (23)	843	3
4	Ohio State (14)	790	4
5	Georgia Tech	589	8
6	Iowa Pre-Flight	347	5
7	Pennsylvania	269	7
7	Tulsa	269	13
9	North Carolina Pre-Flight	166	10
10	Purdue	153	11
11	4th Air Force	109	NR
12	Navy	101	9
13	Bainbridge Naval (2)	93	18
14	Illinois	55	NR
15	2nd Air Force	52	19
16	Great Lakes	46	6
17	Indiana	44	20
18	Wake Forest	38	NR
19	3rd Air Force	23	NR
19	Mississippi State	23	NR
19	Tennessee	23	17

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.