AP Poll 10/26

Associated Press Poll

Year: 1970

10/26/1970

Week 7

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	Texas (15)	670	2
2	Ohio State (16)	664	1
3	Notre Dame (4)	619	3
4	Nebraska (1)	514	4
5	Michigan (1)	434	5
6	Stanford	380	8
7	Air Force (1)	359	7
8	Arkansas	285	9
9	Tennessee	238	11
10	LSU	207	14
11	Arizona State	190	12
12	Auburn	167	6
13	Mississippi	145	13
14	San Diego State	43	17
15	Pittsburgh	42	18
16	Oregon	29	NR
17	Missouri	26	NR
18	USC	22	10
19	UCLA	20	16
20	Northwestern	18	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.