AP Poll 12/2

Associated Press Poll

Year: 1968

12/2/1968

Week 12

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	Ohio State (34)	770	1
2	USC (2)	631	2
3	Penn State (3)	618	3
4	Georgia	528	4
5	Texas	399	6
6	Kansas	394	5
7	Notre Dame	335	9
8	Tennessee	312	7
9	Arkansas	285	8
10	Oklahoma	228	11
11	Purdue	173	12
12	Alabama	123	15
13	Michigan	115	13
14	Oregon State	87	14
15	Ohio	49	17
16	Missouri	44	16
17	Arizona State	26	20
18	Houston	25	10
19	Florida State	20	NR
20	SMU	14	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.