AP Poll 10/8

Associated Press Poll

Year: 1945

10/8/1945

Week 1

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	Army (86)	1,076	1
2	Navy (14)	955	4
3	Notre Dame (3)	699	9
4	Ohio State (3)	658	2
5	Minnesota (2)	605	NR
6	USC (1)	435	7
7	Alabama	305	NR
8	Indiana	216	NR
9	Michigan (1)	185	8
10	Texas	167	NR
11	Pennsylvania	140	NR
12	Holy Cross	118	NR
13	Duke	82	11
14	Oklahoma State	74	NR
15	Purdue	41	NR
16	Tulsa	39	NR
17	Texas A&M	34	NR
18	Tennessee	32	12
19	St. Mary's	22	19
20	Mississippi State	20	NR
20	Virginia	20	NR

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.