AP Poll 11/30

Associated Press Poll

Year: 1970

11/30/1970

Week 12

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	Texas (23)	788	1
2	Ohio State (12)	752	2
3	Nebraska (5)	702	3
4	Arkansas	495	5
5	Tennessee	438	7
6	Notre Dame	415	4
7	Michigan	372	8
8	LSU	367	6
9	Arizona State (2)	287	9
10	Auburn	237	11
11	Air Force	155	12
12	Stanford	95	13
13	Georgia Tech	94	16
14	Toledo	67	15
15	Dartmouth	62	14
16	Mississippi	49	10
17	USC	29	NR
18	Penn State	32	17
19	Northwestern	24	18
20	Oklahoma	23	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.