AP Poll 11/27

Associated Press Poll

Year: 1944

11/27/1944

Week 8

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	Army (55)	737	1
2	Navy (1)	624	2
3	Ohio State (18)	507	3
3	Randolph Field (5)	507	4
5	Bainbridge Naval (11)	362	5
6	Iowa Pre-Flight (1)	271	7
7	USC	237	8
8	Michigan	232	6
9	Notre Dame	127	18
10	Tennessee	101	15
11	Duke	98	11
12	Great Lakes	79	12
13	Norman Pre-Flight	54	17
14	4th Air Force	44	9
15	Oklahoma State	33	NR
16	Alabama	26	13
17	Camp Peary	19	14
18	El Toro Marines	11	16
18	Yale	11	NR
20	2nd Air Force	7	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.