AP Poll 10/13

Associated Press Poll

Year: 1969

10/13/1969

Week 4

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	Ohio State (31)	710	1
2	Texas (5)	638	2
3	USC	478	4
4	Arkansas	458	3
5	Penn State	423	5
6	Missouri	391	7
7	Tennessee	333	10
8	UCLA	300	11
9	LSU	218	14
10	Florida	192	12
11	Notre Dame	130	15
12	Oklahoma	122	8
13	Michigan	83	NR
14	Georgia	71	6
15	Auburn	47	20
16	Wyoming	46	18
17	Purdue	45	9
18	Stanford	39	16
19	Mississippi	36	NR
20	Alabama	31	13

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.