AP Poll Final

Associated Press Poll

Year: 1944

1/5/1945

Week 9

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	Army (95)	1,165	1
2	Ohio State (5)	941	3
3	Randolph Field (17)	886	4
4	Navy	713	2
5	Bainbridge Naval (3)	543	5
6	Iowa Pre-Flight (1)	451	6
7	USC	427	7
8	Michigan	388	8
9	Notre Dame	355	9
10	4th Air Force	154	14
11	Duke	149	11
12	Tennessee	132	10
13	Georgia Tech	60	NR
13	Norman Pre-Flight	60	13
15	Illinois	57	NR
16	El Toro Marines	35	18
17	Great Lakes	33	12
18	Fort Pierce	32	NR
19	St. Mary's	31	NR
20	2nd Air Force	27	20

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.