AP Poll 11/9

Associated Press Poll

Year: 1970

11/9/1970

Week 9

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	Notre Dame (23)	822	2
2	Texas (13)	783	1
3	Ohio State (3)	728	3
4	Nebraska (3)	638	4
5	Michigan (3)	607	5
6	Stanford	482	6
7	Arkansas	375	7
8	Auburn	350	10
9	LSU	306	11
10	Tennessee	280	8
11	Arizona State (1)	204	12
12	Mississippi	197	13
13	Air Force	140	9
14	San Diego State	76	14
15	Dartmouth	45	17
16	Toledo	38	15
17	UCLA	26	16
18	USC	20	NR
19	Oregon	19	NR
20	Kansas State	17	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.