AP Poll 10/7

Associated Press Poll

Year: 1946

10/7/1946

Week 1

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	Texas (69)	999	10
2	Army (21)	928	1
3	Notre Dame (15)	913	9
4	Michigan	632	6
5	UCLA (1)	401	NR
6	Alabama	352	2
7	Pennsylvania (1)	254	8
8	Georgia	247	18
8	Tennessee	247	14
10	Northwestern	177	NR
11	Columbia	146	20
12	Illinois	119	NR
13	LSU	94	15
14	Ohio State	77	12
15	Yale	47	NR
16	St. Mary's	45	7
17	Stanford	38	NR
18	Arkansas	23	NR
19	Kentucky	17	NR
19	NC State	17	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.