AP Poll 10/21

Associated Press Poll

Year: 1946

10/21/1946

Week 3

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	Army (112)	1,500	1
2	Notre Dame (21)	1,332	2
3	Texas (13)	1,263	3
4	Tennessee (6)	898	9
5	UCLA (2)	800	4
6	Pennsylvania	700	6
7	Georgia	548	8
8	Michigan	418	5
8	Northwestern	418	10
10	North Carolina	110	15
11	Alabama	76	7
12	NC State	62	NR
13	Duke	59	17
14	Oklahoma	55	13
15	Georgia Tech	53	NR
16	Rice	43	16
17	Iowa	42	NR
18	William & Mary	14	19
19	Oregon	12	NR
20	Harvard	11	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.