AP Poll Final

Associated Press Poll

Year: 1945

1/5/1946

Week 9

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	Army (116)	1,160	1
2	Alabama	942	3
3	Navy	941	2
4	Indiana	720	4
5	Oklahoma State	651	6
6	Michigan	378	7
7	St. Mary's	320	9
8	Pennsylvania	218	8
9	Notre Dame	217	5
10	Texas	163	10
11	USC	121	16
12	Ohio State	82	12
13	Duke	74	11
14	Tennessee	73	17
15	LSU	62	NR
16	Holy Cross	56	13
17	Tulsa	35	15
18	Georgia	29	NR
19	Wake Forest	11	NR
20	Columbia	10	19

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.