AP Poll 10/10

Associated Press Poll

Year: 1960

10/10/1960

Week 4

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	Mississippi (19)	428	2
2	Iowa (17)	411	3
3	Ohio State (8)	385	5
4	Syracuse (4)	362	1
5	Navy	218	6
6	Missouri	176	11
7	Baylor	131	20
8	Clemson	103	8
9	Kansas	99	10
10	Minnesota	82	14
11	Texas	68	15
12	Wisconsin	55	NR
13	Washington	47	12
14	Michigan State	38	13
15	Alabama	35	17
15	UCLA	35	16
17	Oregon State	25	NR
18	Arizona State	19	NR
19	Georgia Tech	17	NR
20	Penn State	16	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.