AP Poll 11/3

Associated Press Poll

Year: 1969

11/3/1969

Week 7

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	Ohio State (30)	742	1
2	Texas (5)	682	2
3	Tennessee (2)	590	3
4	Arkansas	515	4
5	Penn State (1)	466	5
6	USC	372	6
7	UCLA	357	9
8	Notre Dame	275	10
9	Missouri	232	14
10	Purdue	194	13
11	Auburn	148	17
12	LSU	140	8
13	Florida	86	7
14	Stanford	69	16
15	Kansas State	64	12
16	Georgia	56	11
17	Mississippi	39	NR
18	Michigan	28	20
19	Air Force	22	19
20	Nebraska	13	NR
20	Oklahoma	13	NR

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.