AP Poll Final

Associated Press Poll

Year: 1970

1/5/1971

Week 14

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	Nebraska (39)	946	3
2	Notre Dame (8)	814	6
3	Texas (3)	721	1
4	Tennessee	683	4
5	Ohio State	588	2
6	Arizona State (2)	472	8
7	LSU	464	5
8	Stanford	440	12
9	Michigan	346	7
10	Auburn	289	10
11	Arkansas	199	9
12	Toledo	157	15
13	Georgia Tech	124	13
14	Dartmouth	90	14
15	USC	85	16
16	Air Force	67	11
17	Tulane	31	NR
18	Penn State	17	18
19	Houston	14	17
20	Mississippi	12	NR
20	Oklahoma	12	20

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.