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

AP Poll, Rankings 1960s: What are the greatest college football programs of all-time based on the AP poll final rankings?

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?


[mm-video type=playlist id=01f1343a1wt7q817p7 player_id=none image=https://collegefootballnews.com/wp-content/plugins/mm-video/images/playlist-icon.png]

Contact/Follow @ColFootballNews  

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 Poll College Basketball Rankings Final Top 25: 1970 to 1979

AP Poll, college basketball rankings 1970s: What are the greatest programs of all-time based on the AP poll final rankings?

Where did all the top college basketball teams rank in the final 1970 to 1979 top 25 AP polls? Which programs made the cut and which ones just missed out, but received votes?


[mm-video type=playlist id=01f1343a1wt7q817p7 player_id=none image=https://collegefootballnews.com/wp-content/plugins/mm-video/images/playlist-icon.png]

Contact/Follow @ColFootballNews  

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 1970s?

Take all the AP final rankings and use our CFN scoring system – the AP final No. 1 team gets 25 points, the No. 2 team 24, No. 3 23, and so on down to the bottom.

As acknowledged from the beginning, there are massive inconsistencies and glitches over the years because the final rankings come out at the end of the regular season and before the NCAA Tournament – except for 1974 and 1975.

Overall, though, this is one of the more representative decades of the bunch. UCLA was the dominant program in the 1960s, but Kentucky got the credit overall in the rankings. The Bruins were easily the stars of the 1970s, with some interesting out-of-the-norm programs rocking the overall top 25.

AP Poll, All-Time College Basketball Rankings
Final All-Time College Basketball Rankings1950s | 1960s
1970s | 1980s | 1990s | 2000s | 2010s | 2020s
AP Top 20 1970 | 1971 | 1972 | 1973 | 1974 | 1975
1976 | 1977 | 1978 | 1979
College Football AP Greatest Programs of All-Time  

NCAA Basketball National Champions
1970 UCLA, 1971 UCLA, 1972 UCLA, 1973 UCLA, 1974 NC State, 1975 UCLA, 1976 Indiana, 1977 Marquette, 1978 Kentucky, 1979 Michigan State

AP Poll: 1970 to 1979 Final All-Time College Basketball Rankings

1 UCLA 241

2 Marquette 197

3 North Carolina 149

4 Notre Dame 141

5 Kentucky 132

6 Indiana 107

7 Maryland 88

8 Penn 85

9 NC State 84

10 Louisville 81

11 Long Beach State 77

12 Syracuse 70

13 Michigan 69

14 South Carolina 67

15 Alabama 63

16 Kansas 57

17 UNLV 54

18 San Francisco 53

19 DePaul 52

20 Arkansas 50

21 Providence 46

22 Michigan State 45

22 Minnesota 45

24 Western Kentucky 43

25 Florida State 42

Others Receiving Votes (Points): Houston 39, Kansas State 38, Jacksonville 37, Louisiana Tech (SW Louisiana) 37, USC 36, Utah 35, Duke 34, Tennessee 33, Drake 30, Rutgers 30, Arizona State 28, Cincinnati 27, Memphis State 27, Purdue 26, Indiana State 25, Iowa 25, BYU 23, Missouri 23, Ohio State 23, St. Bonaventure 23, Detroit 22, New Mexico State 21, LSU 19, Oral Roberts 18, Villanova 18, Fordham 17, Wake Forest 17, Marshall 14, New Mexico 14, Princeton 14, Virginia 14, Vanderbilt 13, Arizona 11, Davidson 11, Duquesne 11, Oklahoma 10, Pitt 10, Texas Tech 10, Utah State 10, Charlotte 9, Niagara 9, St. John’s 9, Texas 9, Oregon State 8, Austin Peay 7, Centenary 7, Miami University 7, Toledo 7, Dayton 6, Pepperdine 6, VMI 6

AP Poll, All-Time College Basketball Rankings
Final All-Time College Basketball Rankings1950s | 1960s
1970s | 1980s | 1990s | 2000s | 2010s | 2020s
AP Top 20 1970 | 1971 | 1972 | 1973 | 1974 | 1975
1976 | 1977 | 1978 | 1979
College Football AP Greatest Programs of All-Time  

NEXT: AP Poll College Basketball Rankings: 1979 Final Top 20

AP Poll College Basketball Rankings Final Top 25: 1960 to 1969

AP Poll, college basketball rankings 1960s: What are the greatest programs of all-time based on the AP poll final rankings?

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


[mm-video type=playlist id=01f1343a1wt7q817p7 player_id=none image=https://collegefootballnews.com/wp-content/plugins/mm-video/images/playlist-icon.png]

Contact/Follow @ColFootballNews  

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 1960s?

Take all the AP final rankings and use our CFN scoring system – the AP final regular season No. 1 gets 25 points, the No. 2 team 24, No. 3 23, and so on down to the bottom.

By a bazillion miles, this is easily the glitchiest decade of the bunch.

Obviously UCLA was the dominant program of the era as it ripped through the NCAA Tournament with five national titles in six years – and it’s No. 2 in this.

Why? The AP only ranked ten teams from 1961 to 1968, and Duke was a part of most of them, and UCLA wasn’t. Also, the final polls came out after the regular seasons, not the NCAA Tournament. By the way, the Blue Devils didn’t win any national titles in the 1960s.

AP Poll, All-Time College Basketball Rankings
Final All-Time College Basketball Rankings1950s | 1960s
1970s | 1980s | 1990s | 2000s | 2010s | 2020s
AP Top 20 1960 | 1961 | 1962 | 1963 | 1964 | 1965
1966 | 1967 | 1968 | 1969
College Football AP Greatest Programs of All-Time 

NCAA Basketball National Champions
1960 Ohio State, 1961 Cincinnati, 1962 Cincinnati, 1963 Loyola-Chicago, 1964 UCLA, 1965 UCLA, 1966 Texas Western (UTEP), 1967 UCLA, 1968 UCLA, 1969 UCLA

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

1 Duke 143

2 UCLA 123

3 Cincinnati 117

4 Kentucky 110

5 Ohio State 92

6 North Carolina 87

7 Davidson 75

8 Michigan 66

T9 Bradley 63

T9 St. Bonaventure 63

11 Villanova 62

12 Loyola-Chicago 61

T13 Kansas 52

T13 Louisville 52

T15 Houston 44

T15 St. Joseph’s 44

T17 Kansas State 42

T17 Mississippi State 42

T17 Wichita State 42

20 Colorado 41

T21 Utah 39

T21 UTEP 39

T21 Vanderbilt 39

24 West Virginia 38

25 Western Kentucky 36

Others Receiving Votes (Points): Providence 34, NYU 31, Boston College 27, St. John’s 25, Cal 24, Illinois 24, La Salle 24, Santa Clara 23, Arizona State 22, Princeton 21, New Mexico 20, Oregon State 20, Purdue 20, Columbia 19, Indiana 19, Minnesota 19, USC 19, Bowling Green 18, Iowa 18, Tennessee 18, Utah State 18, BYU 17, DePaul 17, Duquesne 17, Miami 16, Auburn 15, Drake 15, New Mexico State 14, Georgia Tech 13, South Carolina 13, Marquette 12, Saint Louis 11, Holy Cross 10, Notre Dame 9, Wake Forest 7

AP Poll, All-Time College Basketball Rankings
Final All-Time College Basketball Rankings1950s | 1960s
1970s | 1980s | 1990s | 2000s | 2010s | 2020s
AP Top 20 1960 | 1961 | 1962 | 1963 | 1964 | 1965
1966 | 1967 | 1968 | 1969
College Football AP Greatest Programs of All-Time

NEXT: AP Poll College Basketball Rankings: 1969 Final Top 20