AP Poll 12/1

Associated Press Poll

Year: 1969

12/1/1969

Week 11

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	Texas (31)	708	1
2	Arkansas	612	2
3	Penn State (3)	578	3
4	Ohio State	479	4
5	USC (1)	426	5
6	Missouri	356	6
7	Michigan (1)	328	7
8	LSU	272	9
9	Notre Dame	241	8
10	UCLA	210	11
11	Auburn	177	12
12	Tennessee	154	10
13	Nebraska	100	13
14	Mississippi	90	14
15	Purdue	51	16
16	West Virginia	49	19
17	Stanford	36	15
18	Florida	34	17
19	Houston	27	18
20	Toledo	14	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.