AP Poll 9/22

Associated Press Poll

Year: 1969

9/22/1969

Week 1

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	Ohio State (25)	632	1
2	Penn State (5)	548	3
3	Arkansas (1)	513	2
4	Texas (2)	440	4
5	USC (1)	409	5
6	Oklahoma	352	6
7	Georgia	269	8
8	Mississippi	221	9
9	Notre Dame	205	11
10	Indiana	167	14
11	Missouri	166	10
12	Florida (2)	135	NR
13	Michigan State	122	12
14	UCLA	109	17
15	Alabama	61	13
16	Purdue	60	18
17	Auburn	58	20
18	Arizona State	57	NR
19	Tennessee	55	15
20	Michigan	54	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.