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    • Source: 1954 college football rankings

      • Two human polls comprised the 1954 National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) football rankings. Unlike most sports, college football's governing body, the NCAA, does not bestow a national championship, instead that title is bestowed by one or more different polling agencies. There are two main weekly polls that begin in the preseason—the AP Poll and the Coaches Poll.


      Legend




      AP Poll


      The final AP Poll was released on November 29, at the end of the 1954 regular season, weeks before the major bowls. The AP would not release a post-bowl season final poll regularly until 1968.


      Final Coaches Poll


      The final UP Coaches Poll was released prior to the bowl games, on November 29.
      UCLA received 21 of the 35 first-place votes; Ohio State received eleven, and one each to Oklahoma, Notre Dame, and Navy.

      The NCAA record book lists USC, Maryland, and Georgia Tech in a tie for 11th place, while contemporary sources list them in 11th, 12th, and 13th respectively.
      Prior to the 1975 season, the Big Ten and Pacific Coast (later AAWU / Pac-8) conferences allowed only one postseason participant each, for the Rose Bowl.


      Litkenhous Ratings


      The Litkenhous Ratings released in mid-December 1954 provided numerical rankings to over 600 college football programs. The top 50 ranked teams were:


      HBCU rankings


      The Pittsburgh Courier, a leading African American newspaper, ranked the top 1954 teams from historically black colleges and universities in an era when college football was largely segregated. The rankings were published on December 11:

      1. Tennessee A&I (10–1)
      2. Florida A&M (8–1)
      3. Southern (10–1)
      4. North Carolina College (7–1–1)
      5. Virginia State (7–2)
      6. Maryland State (6–1–1)
      7. Prairie View A&M (10–1)
      8. South Carolina State (8–2)
      9. Morris Brown (5–3)
      10. Alcorn State (5–2–2)
      11. Lincoln (MO) (4–3–1)
      12. Xavier (LA) (6–2)
      13. Morgan State (6–3)
      14. Texas Southern (4–3–2)
      15. Grambling (4–2–2)
      The Associated Negro Press also published rankings on December 25:


      See also


      1954 College Football All-America Team


      References

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