AP Poll 10/17

Associated Press Poll

Year: 1960

10/17/1960

Week 5

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	Iowa (23)	442	2
2	Mississippi (22)	440	1
3	Syracuse (2)	339	4
4	Navy	303	5
5	Missouri	279	6
6	Minnesota	224	10
7	Baylor	183	7
8	Washington (1)	114	13
9	Ohio State	71	3
10	Purdue	41	NR
11	Wisconsin	37	12
12	Tennessee	32	NR
13	Michigan State	31	14
14	Arkansas	23	NR
15	Kansas	22	9
16	Texas	12	11
17	Auburn	11	NR
18	Oregon State	10	17
19	UCLA	9	16
20	Rice	7	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.