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1962 NCAA Division I-A football season

1962 AAWU football standings
Conf     Overall
Team W   L   T     W   L   T
No. 1 USC $ 4 0 0     11 0 0
Washington 4 1 0     7 1 2
Washington State 1 1 0     5 4 1
Stanford 2 3 0     5 5 0
UCLA 1 3 0     4 6 0
California 0 4 0     1 9 0
  • $ – Conference champion
Rankings from AP Poll
1962 ACC football standings
Conf     Overall
Team W   L   T     W   L   T
Duke $ 6 0 0     8 2 0
Clemson 5 1 0     6 4 0
Maryland 5 2 0     6 4 0
South Carolina 3 4 0     4 5 1
NC State 3 4 0     3 6 1
North Carolina 3 4 0     3 7 0
Virginia 1 4 0     5 5 0
Wake Forest 0 7 0     0 10 0
  • $ – Conference champion
Rankings from AP Poll
1962 Big 8 football standings
Conf     Overall
Team W   L   T     W   L   T
No. 8 Oklahoma $ 7 0 0     8 3 0
Missouri 5 1 1     8 1 2
Nebraska 5 2 0     9 2 0
Kansas 4 2 1     6 3 1
Iowa State 3 4 0     5 5 0
Oklahoma State 2 5 0     4 6 0
Colorado 1 6 0     2 8 0
Kansas State 0 7 0     0 10 0
  • $ – Conference champion
Rankings from AP Poll
1962 Big Ten football standings
Conf     Overall
Team W   L   T     W   L   T
No. 2 Wisconsin $ 6 1 0     8 2 0
No. 10 Minnesota 5 2 0     6 2 1
Northwestern 4 2 0     7 2 0
Ohio State 4 2 0     6 3 0
Michigan State 3 3 0     5 4 0
Purdue 3 3 0     4 4 1
Iowa 3 3 0     4 5 0
Illinois 2 5 0     2 7 0
Indiana 1 5 0     3 6 0
Michigan 1 6 0     2 7 0
  • $ – Conference champion
Rankings from AP Poll
1962 Ivy League football standings
Conf     Overall
Team W   L   T     W   L   T
Dartmouth $ 7 0 0     9 0 0
Harvard 5 2 0     6 3 0
Columbia 4 3 0     5 4 0
Princeton 4 3 0     5 4 0
Cornell 4 3 0     4 5 0
Penn 2 5 0     3 6 0
Yale 1 5 1     2 5 2
Brown 0 6 1     1 6 2
  • $ – Conference champion
Rankings from AP Poll
1962 Mid-American Conference football standings
Conf     Overall
Team W   L   T     W   L   T
Bowling Green $ 5 0 1     7 1 1
Ohio 5 1 0     8 3 0
Miami (OH) 3 1 1     8 2 1
Western Michigan 3 3 0     5 4 0
Kent State 2 4 0     3 6 0
Toledo 1 5 0     3 6 0
Marshall 0 5 0     4 6 0
  • $ – Conference champion
Rankings from AP Poll
1962 Missouri Valley Conference football standings
Conf     Overall
Team W   L   T     W   L   T
Tulsa $ 3 0 0     5 5 0
North Texas State 2 1 0     6 4 0
Cincinnati] 1 2 0     2 8 0
Wichita 0 3 0     3 7 0
  • $ – Conference champion
1962 SEC football standings
Conf     Overall
Team W   L   T     W   L   T
No. 3 Ole Miss $ 6 0 0     10 0 0
No. 5 Alabama 6 1 0     10 1 0
No. 7 LSU 5 1 1     9 1 1
Georgia Tech 5 2 0     7 3 1
Florida 4 2 0     7 4 0
Auburn 4 3 0     6 3 1
Georgia 2 3 1     3 4 3
Kentucky 2 3 1     3 5 2
Mississippi State 2 5 0     3 6 0
Tennessee 2 6 0     4 6 0
Vanderbilt 1 6 0     1 9 0
Tulane 0 7 0     0 10 0
  • $ – Conference champion
Rankings from AP Poll
1962 Southern Conference football standings
Conf     Overall
Team W   L   T     W   L   T
VMI $ 6 0 0     6 4 0
West Virginia 4 0 0     8 2 0
Richmond 3 2 0     6 3 0
William & Mary 4 3 1     4 5 1
Furman 2 2 0     4 6 0
VPI 2 3 0     5 5 0
The Citadel 1 4 0     3 7 0
George Washington 1 5 0     3 7 0
Davidson 0 4 1     3 5 1
  • $ – Conference champion
Rankings from AP Poll

During the 20th century, the NCAA had no playoff for the major college football teams in the University Division, later known as Division I-A. The NCAA did recognize a national champion based upon the final results of "wire service" (AP and UPI) polls. The extent of that recognition came in the form of acknowledgment in the annual 'NCAA Football Guide of the "unofficial" national champions. The AP poll in 1962 consisted of the votes of 52 sportswriters, each of whom would give their opinion of the ten best teams. Under a point system of 10 points for first place, 9 for second, etc., the "overall" ranking was determined. Although the rankings were based on the collective opinion of the representative sportswriters, the teams that remained "unbeaten and untied" were generally ranked higher than those that had not. A defeat, even against a strong opponent, tended to cause a team to drop in the rankings, and a team with two or more defeats was unlikely to remain in the Top 10. The top teams played on New Year's Day in the four major postseason bowl games: the Rose (near Los Angeles at Pasadena), Sugar (New Orleans), Orange (Miami) and Cotton (Dallas).

In the preseason poll released on September 17, Ohio State was the #1 choice for 45 of the 50 voters, and its Big Ten rival, Michigan State was 4th overall. Texas placed second, and SEC rivals Alabama and Louisiana State (LSU) were third and fifth respectively. As the regular season progressed, a new poll would be issued on the Monday following the weekend's games. Ohio State, Michigan State and the other Big Ten schools would not kick off until September 29. On September 22, #2 Texas beat Oregon at home, 25-13. #3 Alabama and #5 LSU both recorded shutouts, defeating Georgia (at Birmingham 35-0) and Texas A&M (21-0) respectively. In the poll that followed, Alabama rose to #1, while Ohio State and Texas fell to 2nd and 3rd. Penn State, which had beaten Navy at home 41-7, rose from 9th to 4th, while LSU remained at #5. Also on the 22nd, the first games of the newly formed Western Athletic Conference took place as Arizona beat BYU, 27-21, and New Mexico beat Wyoming 25-21. All six of the charter members (including Arizona State and Utah) had withdrawn by 1999.


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