AP Poll 10/19

Associated Press Poll

Year: 1970

10/19/1970

Week 6

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	Ohio State (19)	668	1
2	Texas (9)	630	2
3	Notre Dame (4)	585	3
4	Nebraska (1)	477	5
5	Michigan (1)	387	6
6	Auburn (1)	355	8
7	Air Force (1)	354	7
8	Stanford	316	9
9	Arkansas	224	10
10	USC	184	11
11	Tennessee	153	14
12	Arizona State	147	12
13	Mississippi	140	4
14	LSU	73	15
15	Houston	48	19
16	UCLA	26	20
17	San Diego State	16	NR
18	Pittsburgh	10	NR
19	Colorado	8	13
19	Toledo	8	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.