AP Poll 10/29

Associated Press Poll

Year: 1945

10/29/1945

Week 4

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	Army (91)	1,040	1
2	Notre Dame (6)	899	2
3	Navy (3)	796	3
4	Alabama (4)	706	6
5	Indiana	457	8
6	Ohio State	317	12
7	Pennsylvania	254	7
8	St. Mary's (2)	233	10
9	Oklahoma State	189	17
10	Michigan	154	16
11	Holy Cross	130	15
12	Columbia	118	11
13	Purdue	85	4
14	Oklahoma	75	NR
15	Mississippi State	60	18
16	Minnesota	53	5
17	LSU	39	13
18	Duke	28	19
18	Washington	28	NR
20	Northwestern	24	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.