AP Poll 10/22

Associated Press Poll

Year: 1945

10/22/1945

Week 3

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	Army (101)	1,108	1
2	Notre Dame (4)	860	3
3	Navy (5)	803	2
4	Purdue	702	9
5	Minnesota (1)	696	5
6	Alabama	668	6
7	Pennsylvania	339	7
8	Indiana	280	8
9	Texas	199	10
10	St. Mary's (1)	119	11
11	Columbia	94	17
12	Ohio State	59	4
13	LSU	55	NR
14	Tulsa	41	18
15	Holy Cross	35	19
16	Michigan	33	13
17	Oklahoma State	31	15
18	Mississippi State	27	20
19	Duke	19	16
20	USC	18	14

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.