AP Poll 11/24

Associated Press Poll

Year: 1969

11/24/1969

Week 10

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	Texas (33)	748	2
2	Arkansas	603	3
3	Penn State (3)	573	4
4	Ohio State	509	1
5	USC (1)	453	5
6	Missouri	428	7
7	Michigan (1)	337	12
8	Notre Dame	284	8
9	LSU	260	10
10	Tennessee	204	9
11	UCLA	191	6
12	Auburn	138	11
13	Nebraska	92	16
14	Mississippi	89	13
15	Stanford	58	14
16	Purdue	44	17
17	Florida	40	15
18	Houston	31	19
19	West Virginia	14	18
20	Toledo	7	20

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.