AP Poll 11/12

Associated Press Poll

Year: 1945

11/12/1945

Week 6

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	Army (91)	1,036	1
2	Navy (5)	879	4
3	Alabama (5)	744	3
4	Indiana	661	6
5	St. Mary's (4)	624	5
6	Pennsylvania	450	9
7	Notre Dame	418	2
8	Oklahoma State	320	11
9	Ohio State	157	8
10	Holy Cross	118	13
11	Purdue	81	12
12	Penn State	55	NR
13	Virginia	47	15
14	Michigan	30	7
14	Oklahoma	30	NR
16	Mississippi State	27	NR
17	Texas	26	17
18	Tennessee	21	NR
19	Tulsa	13	19
20	Duke	10	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.