AP Poll 10/27

Associated Press Poll

Year: 1969

10/27/1969

Week 6

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	Ohio State (35)	772	1
2	Texas (2)	692	2
3	Tennessee (1)	570	3
4	Arkansas	547	4
5	Penn State (1)	453	8
6	USC	396	7
7	Florida	353	10
8	LSU	344	9
9	UCLA	292	6
10	Notre Dame	174	12
11	Georgia	164	13
12	Kansas State	146	18
13	Purdue	104	15
14	Missouri	91	5
15	Wyoming	67	16
16	Stanford	60	19
17	Auburn	37	14
18	Colorado	17	NR
19	Air Force	14	20
20	Michigan	13	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.