AP College Football Poll, Rankings: 1960 to 1969 Final Top 25

Where did all the top teams rank in the final 1960 to 1969 top 25 AP college football poll? Which programs made the cut and which ones just missed out, but received votes?


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According to the final AP rankings, how do the programs rank all-time, by decade, and by era? Which ones were the best over the 1940s?

Take all the AP final rankings and use our CFN scoring system – the AP national champion gets 25 points, the No. 2 team 24, No. 3 23, and so on down to the bottom.

Alabama won three AP national championships and was in three other AP top tens to become the program of the 1960s. This was a quirky decade for the AP Poll – it was only a final top 10 from 1961 to 1967.

1960s AP National Champions 
1960 Minnesota; 1961 Alabama; 1962 USC; 1963 Texas; 1964 Alabama; 1965 Alabama; 1966 Notre Dame; 1967 USC; 1968 Ohio State; 1969 Texas

AP Poll, All-Time Rankings
Greatest Programs of All-Time | 1930s | 1940s1950s
1960s | 1970s | 1980s | 1990s | 2000s | 2010s | 2020s
AP Top 10 or 20 1960 | 1961 | 1962 | 1963 | 1964 | 1965
1966 | 1967 | 1968 | 1969

AP College Football Poll: 1960 to 1969 Final All-Time Rankings

1 Alabama 181

2 Texas 139

3 Notre Dame 128

4 USC 127

5 Arkansas 122

6 Ohio State 106

7 Ole Miss 105

8 LSU 101

9 Nebraska 96

10 Michigan State 94

11 Penn State 91

12 Missouri 78

13 Oklahoma 72

14 Purdue 67

15 Tennessee 67

16 Minnesota 61

17 UCLA 56

18 Michigan 53

19 Auburn 50

20 Oregon State 48

21 Navy 46

22 Georgia 40

23 Kansas 34

24 Colorado 29

25 SMU 28

Others Receiving Votes: 26 Wisconsin 24, T27 Illinois 23, T27 Iowa 23, T29 Houston 22, T29 Indiana 22, T29 Pitt 22, T32 Arizona 20, T32 Florida 20, T32 Washington 20,T32 Wyoming 20, 36 Georgia Tech 18, 37 Miami 17, T38 Duke 16, T38 Utah State 16, 40 Baylor 14, 41 Yale 12, T42 New Mexico State 9, T42 West Virginia 9, 44 Stanford 7, 45 Syracuse 7, 46 Ohio 6

AP Poll, All-Time Rankings 
AP Top 10 or 20 1960 | 1961 | 1962 | 1963 | 1964 | 1965
1966 | 1967 | 1968 | 1969

NEXT: AP College Football Poll, Rankings: 1969 Final Top 20

AP College Football Poll, Rankings: 1969 Final Top 20

1 Texas

2 Penn State

3 USC

4 Ohio State

5 Notre Dame

6 Missouri

7 Arkansas

8 Ole Miss

9 Michigan

10 LSU

11 Nebraska

12 Houston

13 UCLA

14 Florida

15 Tennessee

16 Colorado

17 West Virginia

18 Purdue

19 Stanford

20 Auburn

AP Poll, All-Time Rankings 
AP Top 10 or 20 1960 | 1961 | 1962 | 1963 | 1964 | 1965
1966 | 1967 | 1968 | 1969

NEXT: AP College Football Poll, Rankings: 1968 Final Top 20

AP College Football Poll, Rankings: 1968 Final Top 20

1 Ohio State

2 Penn State

3 Texas

4 USC

5 Notre Dame

6 Arkansas

7 Kansas

8 Georgia

9 Missouri

10 Purdue

11 Oklahoma

12 Michigan

13 Tennessee

14 SMU

15 Oregon State

16 Auburn

17 Alabama

18 Houston

19 LSU

20 Ohio

AP Poll, All-Time Rankings 
AP Top 10 or 20 1960 | 1961 | 1962 | 1963 | 1964 | 1965
1966 | 1967 | 1968 | 1969

NEXT: AP College Football Poll, Rankings: 1967 Final Top 10

AP College Football Poll, Rankings: 1967 Final Top 10

1 USC

2 Tennessee

3 Oklahoma

4 Indiana

5 Notre Dame

6 Wyoming

7 Oregon State

8 Alabama

9 Purdue

10 Penn State

AP Poll, All-Time Rankings 
AP Top 10 or 20 1960 | 1961 | 1962 | 1963 | 1964 | 1965
1966 | 1967 | 1968 | 1969

NEXT: AP College Football Poll, Rankings: 1966 Final Top 10

AP College Football Poll, Rankings: 1966 Final Top 10

1 Notre Dame

2 Michigan State

3 Alabama

4 Georgia

5 UCLA

6 Nebraska

7 Purdue

8 Georgia Tech

9 Miami

10 SMU

AP Poll, All-Time Rankings 
AP Top 10 or 20 1960 | 1961 | 1962 | 1963 | 1964 | 1965
1966 | 1967 | 1968 | 1969

NEXT: AP College Football Poll, Rankings: 1965 Final Top 10

AP College Football Poll, Rankings: 1965 Final Top 10

1 Alabama

2 Michigan State

3 Arkansas

4 UCLA

5 Nebraska

6 Missouri

7 Tennessee

8 LSU

9 Notre Dame

10 USC

AP Poll, All-Time Rankings 
AP Top 10 or 20 1960 | 1961 | 1962 | 1963 | 1964 | 1965
1966 | 1967 | 1968 | 1969

NEXT: AP College Football Poll, Rankings: 1964 Final Top 20

AP College Football Poll, Rankings: 1964 Final Top 20

1 Alabama

2 Arkansas

3 Notre Dame

4 Michigan

5 Texas

6 Nebraska

7 LSU

8 Oregon State

9 Ohio State

10 USC

AP Poll, All-Time Rankings 
AP Top 10 or 20 1960 | 1961 | 1962 | 1963 | 1964 | 1965
1966 | 1967 | 1968 | 1969

NEXT: AP College Football Poll, Rankings: 1963 Final Top 10

AP College Football Poll, Rankings: 1963 Final Top 10

1 Texas

2 Navy

3 Illinois

4 Pitt

5 Auburn

6 Nebraska

7 Ole Miss

8 Alabama

9 Michigan State

10 Oklahoma

AP Poll, All-Time Rankings 
AP Top 10 or 20 1960 | 1961 | 1962 | 1963 | 1964 | 1965
1966 | 1967 | 1968 | 1969

NEXT: AP College Football Poll, Rankings: 1962 Final Top 10

AP College Football Poll, Rankings: 1962 Final Top 10

1 USC

2 Wisconsin

3 Ole Miss

4 Texas

5 Alabama

6 Arizona

7 LSU

8 Oklahoma

9 Penn State

10 Minnesota

AP Poll, All-Time Rankings 
AP Top 10 or 20 1960 | 1961 | 1962 | 1963 | 1964 | 1965
1966 | 1967 | 1968 | 1969

NEXT: AP College Football Poll, Rankings: 1961 Final Top 10

AP College Football Poll, Rankings: 1961 Final Top 10

1 Alabama

2 Ohio State

3 Texas

4 LSU

5 Ole Miss

6 Minnesota

7 Colorado

8 Michigan State

9 Arkansas

10 Utah State

AP Poll, All-Time Rankings 
AP Top 10 or 20 1960 | 1961 | 1962 | 1963 | 1964 | 1965
1966 | 1967 | 1968 | 1969

NEXT: AP College Football Poll, Rankings: 1960 Final Top 20

AP College Football Poll, Rankings: 1960 Final Top 20

1 Minnesota

2 Ole Miss

3 Iowa

4 Navy

5 Missouri

6 Washington

7 Arkansas

8 Ohio State

9 Alabama

10 Duke

11 Kansas

12 Baylor

13 Auburn

14 Yale

15 Michigan State

16 Penn State

17 New Mexico State

18 Florida

T19 Purdue

T19 Syracuse

AP Poll, All-Time Rankings
Greatest Programs of All-Time | 1930s | 1940s1950s
1960s | 1970s | 1980s | 1990s | 2000s | 2010s | 2020s
AP Top 10 or 20 1960 | 1961 | 1962 | 1963 | 1964 | 1965
1966 | 1967 | 1968 | 1969

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