AP Poll 11/5

Associated Press Poll

Year: 1945

11/5/1945

Week 5

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	Army (86)	982	1
2	Notre Dame (3)	804	2
3	Alabama (4)	799	4
4	Navy (3)	702	3
5	St. Mary's (2)	486	8
6	Indiana (3)	445	5
7	Michigan	346	10
8	Ohio State	280	6
9	Pennsylvania	218	7
10	Columbia	167	12
11	Oklahoma State	109	9
12	Purdue	99	13
13	Holy Cross	62	11
14	LSU	42	17
15	Virginia	24	NR
16	Duke	18	18
17	Texas	15	NR
18	Washington	7	19
19	Tulsa	6	NR
20	Minnesota	5	16

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.