AP Poll 10/27

Associated Press Poll

Year: 1947

10/27/1947

Week 4

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	Notre Dame (78)	1,734	2
2	Michigan (69)	1,689	1
3	Texas (25)	1,516	3
4	Pennsylvania (11)	1,165	8
5	USC (6)	1,133	10
6	Georgia Tech (2)	957	7
7	Penn State (2)	632	9
8	SMU	558	12
9	Duke (2)	252	15
10	Army	208	6
11	Illinois	206	5
12	Virginia	193	13
13	Kentucky	79	14
14	California	65	4
15	Wake Forest	61	11
16	Purdue	45	NR
17	LSU	35	18
18	Alabama	33	NR
19	UCLA	28	16
20	Columbia	27	NR

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.