AP Poll 11/2

Associated Press Poll

Year: 1970

11/2/1970

Week 8

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	Texas (20)	701	1
2	Notre Dame (12)	684	3
3	Ohio State (5)	617	2
4	Nebraska	506	4
5	Michigan (2)	476	5
6	Stanford (1)	418	6
7	Arkansas	315	8
8	Tennessee	282	9
9	Air Force	279	7
10	Auburn	241	12
11	LSU	232	10
12	Arizona State	160	11
13	Mississippi	120	13
14	San Diego State	67	14
15	Toledo	26	NR
16	UCLA	21	19
17	Dartmouth	13	NR
18	Houston	11	NR
19	Alabama	10	NR
20	Syracuse	9	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.