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1936 college football rankings

The college football rankings for the 1936 college football season included the first AP Poll, the Toledo Cup rankings based on input from a judge's committee of 250 sports editors, and the Litkenhous Ratings. The 1936 Minnesota Golden Gophers football team was ranked as the national champion in all three rankings.

Champions (by ranking)

Major rankings (both contemporary and retroactive) have varyingly identified either Minnesota, Pittsburgh, LSU or Duke as the 1936 national champion.

Note: AP poll, Boand System, Dickinson System, Dunkel System, Houlgate System, Litkenhous Ratings, Poling System, Toledo Cup, and Williamson System were given contemporarily. All other methods were given retroactively.

AP Poll

Legend

The final AP Poll was released on November 30, at the end of the 1936 regular season, weeks before the major bowls. The AP would not release a post-bowl season final poll regularly until 1968.

Boand System rankings

The final post-bowl Boand System rankings for 1936 were:

  1. Pittsburgh (81.1 pts)
  2. Minnesota (79.6 pts)
  3. LSU (79.1 pts)
  4. Santa Clara (76.8 pts)
  5. Northwestern (75.4 pts)
  6. Washington University (75.3 pts)
  7. Nebraska (75.2 pts)
  8. Alabama (75.1 pts)
  9. TCU (74.9 pts)
  10. Yale (74.1 pts)
  11. Notre Dame (73.6 pts)
  12. Marquette (72.9 pts)

Toledo Cup

For the third consecutive year, Minnesota won the Toledo Cup as college football's national champion. The Toledo Cup award was based on input from a judge's committee of 250 sports editors of leading newspapers. By winning the cup for the third consecutive years, Minnesota received permanent possession of the cup. The results of preliminary balloting were as follows:

1. Minnesota – 582 points<br> 2. Northwestern – 525 points<br> 3. Fordham – 135 points<br> 4. LSU – 95 points<br> 5. Pittsburgh – 94 points<br> 6. Alabama – 61 points<br> 7. Santa Clara – 60 points<br> 8. Marquette – 38 points<br> 9. Washington – 29 points<br> 10. (tie) Dartmouth – 5 points<br> 10. (tie) Duke – 5 points<br> 12. Penn – 3 points<br> 13. Nebraska – 2 points

The vote tally in the final round was as follows:

1. Minnesota – 230 votes<br> 2. LSU – 7 votes<br> 3. Northwestern – 6 votes<br> 4. Fordham – 2 votes<br>

Litkenhous Ratings

The post-bowl final Litkenhous Ratings for 1936 ranked 618 college football teams. The top 125 teams were as follows:

1. Minnesota<br> 2. Pittsburgh<br> 3. LSU<br> 4. Ohio State<br> 5. Duke<br> 6. Notre Dame<br> 7. Alabama<br> 8. Nebraska<br> 9. Washington<br> 10. Duquesne<br> 11. Mississippi State<br> 12. Army<br> 13. Northwestern<br> 14. Georgia Tech<br> 15. Auburn<br> 16. Tennessee<br> 17. Arkansas<br> 18. Baldwin–Wallace<br> 19. Santa Clara<br> 20. Marquette<br> 21. Dartmouth<br> 22. Purdue<br> 23. Indiana<br> 24. Penn<br> 25. TCU<br> 26. Michigan State<br> 27. Detroit<br> 28. USC<br> 29. Colgate<br> 30. North Carolina<br> 31. Harvard<br> 32. Holy Cross<br> 33. Princeton<br> 34. Hardin–Simmons<br> 35. Temple<br> 36. Yale<br> 37. Ole Miss<br> 38. Carnegie Tech<br> 39. Tulane<br> 40. Villanova<br> 41. Texas A&M<br> 42. Kentucky<br> 43. SMU<br> 44. Navy<br> 45. George Washington<br> 46. California<br> 47. Vanderbilt<br> 48. Manhattan<br> 49. Tulsa<br> 50. Western Reserve<br> 51. Rice<br> 52. Iowa<br> 53. Georgetown<br> 54. Clemson<br> 55. Michigan<br> 56. Illinois<br> 57. UCLA<br> 58. Baylor<br> 59. Georgia<br> 60. West Virginia<br> 61. Washington State<br> 62. Stanford<br> 63. NYU<br> 64. Boston College<br> 65. Missouri<br> 66. Penn State<br> 67. Canisius<br> 68. Wake Forest<br> 69. Kansas State<br> 70. Oregon State<br> 71. Wisconsin<br> 72. Catholic University<br> 73. DePaul<br> 74. Kearney State<br> 75. Texas<br> 76. Saint Anselm<br> 77. Oklahoma<br> 78. Arkansas Tech<br> 79. West Virginia Wesleyan<br> 80. Davidson<br> 81. NC State<br> 82. Arizona<br> 83. Louisiana Tech<br> 84. Connecticut State<br> 85. Saint Mary's<br> 86. Waynesburg<br> 87. Butler<br> 88. Creighton<br> 89. Marshall<br> 90. Miami (FL)<br> 91. Washington University<br> 92. Cornell<br> 93. Humboldt State<br> 94. Maryland<br> 95. Bucknell<br> 96. Centenary<br> 97. Albright<br> 98. Drake<br> 99. Florida<br> 100. La Salle<br> 101. Loyola (Los Angeles)<br> 102. Colorado<br> 103. Syracuse<br> 104. Chattanooga<br> 105. St. Benedict<br> 106. Utah State<br> 107. Franklin & Marshall<br> 108. North Dakota<br> 109. Saint Louis<br> 110. St. Bonaventure<br> 111. Western Maryland<br> 112. South Carolina<br> 113. Texas Tech<br> 114. Utah<br> 115. Gonzaga<br> 116. St. Thomas (PA)<br> 117. Boston University<br> 118. Howard<br> 119. Denver<br> 120. Augustana (SD)<br> 121. Connecticut State<br> 122. Furman<br> 123. Iowa State<br> 124. Hobart<br> 125. Oregon<br>

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