AP Poll 11/20

Associated Press Poll

Year: 1944

11/20/1944

Week 7

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	Army (65)	889	1
2	Navy (5)	761	3
3	Ohio State (5)	726	4
4	Randolph Field (11)	690	2
5	Bainbridge Naval (4)	412	6
6	Michigan	392	5
7	Iowa Pre-Flight (2)	316	7
8	USC (1)	242	12
9	4th Air Force (3)	184	8
10	Georgia Tech	141	9
11	Duke (1)	124	10
12	Great Lakes	79	13
13	Alabama	71	NR
14	Camp Peary	63	NR
15	Tennessee	62	17
16	El Toro Marines	53	15
17	Norman Pre-Flight	45	18
18	Notre Dame	40	11
19	2nd Air Force	31	NR
20	North Carolina Pre-Flight	22	19

Associated Press Poll
Started in 1936.

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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.