AP Poll 10/18

Associated Press Poll

Year: 1937

10/18/1937

Week 1

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	California (24)	432	NR
2	Alabama (7)	355	4
3	Pittsburgh (8)	347	3
4	Minnesota (5)	291	1
5	Yale (6)	256	12
6	LSU (2)	244	2
7	Northwestern	165	7
8	Nebraska	153	9
9	Fordham	103	15
10	Duke	94	11
11	USC	84	NR
12	Ohio State	63	NR
13	Texas A&M	51	NR
14	Santa Clara	45	6
15	Baylor	41	NR
16	Wisconsin	36	NR
17	Syracuse	35	NR
18	Dartmouth	34	13
19	Cornell	17	NR
20	Auburn	13	NR
20	Holy Cross	13	NR
20	Vanderbilt	13	NR

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.