AP Poll 10/7

Associated Press Poll

Year: 1968

10/7/1968

Week 4

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	Purdue (35)	736	1
2	USC (1)	660	2
3	Penn State (1)	492	3
4	Ohio State	424	6
5	Notre Dame	401	5
6	Kansas	398	8
7	Florida	369	4
8	LSU	276	10
9	Nebraska	244	7
10	Tennessee	184	15
11	Houston	183	12
12	Michigan State	118	19
13	Mississippi	113	NR
14	Arkansas	85	20
15	Syracuse	81	NR
16	California	64	18
17	Georgia	62	16
18	Stanford	42	NR
19	Florida State	29	NR
20	Oregon State	23	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.