AP Poll 9/23

Associated Press Poll

Year: 1968

9/23/1968

Week 2

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	Purdue (25)	888	1
2	Notre Dame (19)	864	3
3	USC (4)	794	2
4	Penn State (1)	494	10
5	Florida	323	6
6	Texas	310	4
7	Alabama	306	7
8	UCLA	284	17
9	Nebraska	281	14
10	Houston	238	11
11	Ohio State	211	9
12	Kansas	175	NR
13	Indiana	158	15
14	LSU	121	20
15	Miami	107	19
16	Tennessee	102	12
17	Minnesota	90	16
18	Oregon State (1)	71	8
19	Arizona State	69	NR
20	Wyoming	49	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.