AP Poll 10/25

Associated Press Poll

Year: 1937

10/25/1937

Week 2

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	California (48)	556	1
2	Pittsburgh (3)	408	3
3	Alabama	337	2
4	Minnesota (2)	321	4
5	Yale (2)	278	5
6	Baylor (1)	226	15
7	Vanderbilt (1)	167	22
8	Ohio State	146	12
9	Dartmouth	130	18
10	Fordham	122	9
11	Nebraska	121	8
12	Auburn	85	20
13	Duke	84	10
14	Santa Clara	33	14
15	North Carolina	16	NR
16	Villanova	12	NR
17	LSU	13	6
18	Detroit	9	NR
18	Holy Cross	9	21
20	Arkansas	8	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.