AP Poll 9/30

Associated Press Poll

Year: 1968

9/30/1968

Week 3

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	Purdue (42)	894	1
2	USC (2)	797	3
3	Penn State (1)	568	4
4	Florida	441	5
5	Notre Dame	430	2
6	Ohio State	398	11
7	Nebraska	395	9
8	Kansas	393	12
9	UCLA	342	8
10	LSU	213	14
11	Alabama	196	7
12	Houston	163	10
13	Miami	152	15
14	Arizona State	104	19
15	Tennessee	100	16
16	Georgia	64	NR
17	Texas A&M	49	NR
18	California	43	NR
19	Michigan State	39	NR
20	Arkansas	37	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.