AP Poll 11/6

Associated Press Poll

Year: 1944

11/6/1944

Week 5

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	Army (58)	974	1
2	Ohio State (18)	812	3
3	Navy (1)	706	6
4	Randolph Field (18)	675	4
5	Notre Dame	430	2
6	Bainbridge Naval (6)	349	12
7	Iowa Pre-Flight	347	7
8	Michigan	342	10
9	4th Air Force (3)	163	11
10	Illinois	149	9
11	USC	138	13
12	Wake Forest (1)	114	17
13	Georgia Tech	96	5
14	Great Lakes	94	14
15	Norman Pre-Flight	65	NR
16	North Carolina Pre-Flight	59	8
17	El Toro Marines	53	NR
18	Tennessee	47	16
19	Mississippi State	41	18
20	Duke	35	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.