AP Poll 11/18

Associated Press Poll

Year: 1968

11/18/1968

Week 10

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	USC (27)	704	1
2	Ohio State (7)	636	2
3	Penn State (2)	571	3
4	Michigan	545	4
5	Georgia (1)	530	5
6	Texas	359	8
7	Kansas	330	7
8	Tennessee	256	11
9	Arkansas	236	10
10	Notre Dame	205	9
11	Houston	120	14
12	Purdue	118	15
13	Missouri	110	6
14	Oklahoma	92	NR
15	Alabama	65	16
16	Oregon State	56	13
17	Ohio	41	17
18	California	26	18
19	Auburn	23	12
20	Wyoming	16	20

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.