AP Poll 10/21

Associated Press Poll

Year: 1968

10/21/1968

Week 6

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	USC (21)	800	1
2	Ohio State (15)	784	2
3	Kansas (5)	660	4
4	Penn State (1)	580	3
5	Notre Dame	442	6
6	Tennessee	418	8
7	Purdue	410	5
8	Georgia	369	10
9	Miami	194	12
10	Syracuse	160	11
11	California	138	NR
12	Michigan	116	18
13	Texas	112	17
14	Missouri	103	21
15	Florida	73	7
16	Arkansas	63	9
17	Mississippi	60	16
18	LSU	43	20
19	Texas Tech	36	15
20	Florida State	26	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.