AP Poll 11/25

Associated Press Poll

Year: 1968

11/25/1968

Week 11

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	Ohio State (22)	935	2
2	USC (25)	925	1
3	Penn State (3)	773	3
4	Georgia (1)	597	5
5	Kansas	524	7
6	Texas	494	6
7	Tennessee	446	8
8	Arkansas	394	9
9	Notre Dame	301	10
10	Houston	234	11
11	Oklahoma	213	14
12	Purdue	210	12
13	Michigan	189	4
14	Oregon State	96	16
15	Alabama	76	15
16	Missouri	66	13
17	Ohio	58	17
18	Auburn	38	19
19	Arizona	19	NR
20	Arizona State	17	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.