AP Poll 10/15

Associated Press Poll

Year: 1945

10/15/1945

Week 2

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	Army (90)	1,035	1
2	Navy (14)	803	2
3	Notre Dame	768	3
4	Ohio State (1)	655	4
5	Minnesota	581	5
6	Alabama	511	7
7	Pennsylvania	310	11
8	Indiana	292	8
9	Purdue	184	15
10	Texas	117	10
11	St. Mary's	114	19
12	Georgia	113	NR
13	Michigan	94	9
14	USC	45	6
15	Oklahoma State	42	14
16	Duke	40	13
17	Columbia	27	NR
18	Tulsa	24	16
19	Holy Cross	22	12
20	Mississippi State	18	20

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.