AP Poll 11/4

Associated Press Poll

Year: 1968

11/4/1968

Week 8

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	USC (19)	816	1
2	Ohio State (14)	803	2
3	Kansas (10)	758	3
4	Penn State (1)	558	4
5	Tennessee (1)	541	5
6	Purdue	415	6
7	Michigan	371	9
8	Missouri	284	10
9	Georgia	278	7
10	Texas	263	11
11	California	192	8
12	Notre Dame	183	12
13	Houston	141	15
14	Arkansas	124	17
15	Oregon State	48	NR
16	Ohio	44	19
17	Michigan State	34	16
18	Auburn	31	NR
19	Wyoming	29	NR
20	LSU	18	14

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.