AP Poll Final

Associated Press Poll

Year: 1961

1/5/1962

Week 11

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	Alabama (26)	452	1
2	Ohio State (20)	436	2
3	Texas	348	4
4	LSU (1)	335	3
5	Mississippi (1)	284	5
6	Minnesota	225	7
7	Colorado	171	6
8	Michigan State	128	8
9	Arkansas	105	9
10	Utah State	33	NR
11	Missouri	18	10
12	Purdue	15	NR
13	Georgia Tech	12	NR
14	Syracuse	11	NR
15	Rutgers	9	NR
16	UCLA	7	NR
17	Arizona	5	NR
17	Penn State	5	NR
17	Rice	5	NR
20	Duke	4	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.