AP Poll Pre

Associated Press Poll

Year: 1969

7/1/1969

Preseason Poll

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	Ohio State (26)	611	1
2	Arkansas (2)	420	6
3	Penn State (3)	390	2
4	Texas (1)	343	3
5	USC	290	4
6	Oklahoma	264	11
7	Houston (1)	231	18
8	Georgia	219	8
9	Mississippi	211	NR
10	Missouri	209	9
11	Notre Dame	204	5
12	Michigan State	148	NR
13	Alabama	120	17
14	Indiana	98	NR
15	Tennessee	67	13
16	Stanford	53	NR
17	UCLA	52	NR
18	Purdue	42	10
19	Minnesota	40	NR
20	Auburn	37	16

Associated Press Poll
Started in 1936.

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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.