AP Poll 11/11

Associated Press Poll

Year: 1968

11/11/1968

Week 9

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	USC (32)	908	1
2	Ohio State (14)	864	2
3	Penn State (1)	744	4
4	Michigan	542	7
5	Georgia	530	9
6	Missouri	492	8
7	Kansas	387	3
8	Texas	371	10
9	Notre Dame	213	12
10	Arkansas	193	14
11	Tennessee	188	5
12	Auburn	172	18
13	Oregon State	150	15
14	Houston	131	13
15	Purdue	111	6
16	Alabama	63	NR
17	Ohio	49	16
18	California	31	11
19	Indiana	30	NR
20	Wyoming	26	19

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.