AP Poll 11/3

Associated Press Poll

Year: 1947

11/3/1947

Week 5

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	Notre Dame (106)	1,731	1
2	Michigan (56)	1,661	2
3	SMU (7)	1,187	8
4	Pennsylvania (8)	1,136	4
5	USC (2)	1,082	5
6	Georgia Tech (6)	1,041	6
7	Penn State (2)	701	7
8	Texas	553	3
9	Army	291	10
10	Virginia	248	12
11	Illinois	177	11
12	California	86	14
13	Duke	71	9
14	Purdue	66	16
15	William & Mary	44	NR
16	Alabama	41	18
17	Columbia	27	20
18	North Carolina	18	NR
19	Wisconsin	17	NR
20	Yale	13	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.