AP Poll 10/28

Associated Press Poll

Year: 1946

10/28/1946

Week 4

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	Army (104)	1,647	1
2	Notre Dame (61)	1,578	2
3	Pennsylvania (4)	1,100	6
4	UCLA (1)	1,018	5
5	Georgia (1)	935	7
6	Northwestern	659	9
7	Texas	501	3
8	Rice	466	16
9	North Carolina	281	10
10	Tennessee	191	4
11	Illinois	126	NR
12	Wake Forest	102	NR
13	Michigan	91	8
14	Oklahoma	86	14
15	Alabama	84	11
16	Georgia Tech	80	15
17	Harvard (1)	66	20
18	Wisconsin	60	NR
19	Duke	40	13
20	Indiana	34	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.