AP Poll Pre

Associated Press Poll

Year: 1968

7/1/1968

Preseason Poll

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	Purdue (14)	567	9
2	USC (10)	549	1
3	Notre Dame (3)	542	5
4	Oklahoma	331	3
5	Texas (3)	330	NR
6	Oregon State (2)	271	7
7	Florida (1)	269	NR
8	Penn State	198	10
9	Tennessee	195	2
10	Alabama	192	8
11	Ohio State	188	NR
12	Texas A&M	186	NR
13	Indiana	103	4
14	Nebraska	88	NR
15	Minnesota	72	NR
16	UCLA	50	NR
17	Arizona State	44	NR
18	LSU	35	NR
19	Syracuse	31	NR
20	Miami	29	NR

Associated Press Poll
Started in 1936.

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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.