AP Poll 9/19

Associated Press Poll

Year: 1960

9/19/1960

Week 1

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	Mississippi (22)	434	2
2	Syracuse (22)	401	1
3	Washington (3)	378	3
4	Illinois	214	5
5	Alabama	182	NR
6	Michigan State	149	8
7	Kansas	132	NR
8	UCLA	78	NR
9	Clemson	65	9
10	Oregon State	62	NR
11	Penn State	60	20
12	Nebraska	59	NR
13	Georgia Tech	53	NR
14	Northwestern	40	14
15	Texas	37	4
16	Missouri	31	NR
17	Pittsburgh (1)	27	7
18	LSU	25	NR
19	Iowa	19	15
20	Ohio State	17	16

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.