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1970 NCAA football season

1970 ACC football standings
Conf     Overall
Team W   L   T     W   L   T
Wake Forest $ 5 1 0     6 5 0
North Carolina 5 2 0     8 4 0
Duke 5 2 0     6 5 0
South Carolina 3 2 1     4 6 1
NC State 2 3 1     3 7 1
Clemson 2 4 0     3 8 0
Maryland 2 4 0     2 9 0
Virginia 0 6 0     5 6 0
  • $ – Conference champion
Rankings from AP Poll
1970 Big 8 football standings
Conf     Overall
Team W   L   T     W   L   T
No. 1 Nebraska $ 7 0 0     11 0 1
No. 20 Oklahoma 5 2 0     7 4 1
Kansas State 5 2 0     6 5 0
Colorado 3 4 0     6 5 0
Missouri 3 4 0     5 6 0
Kansas 2 5 0     5 6 0
Oklahoma State 2 5 0     4 7 0
Iowa State 1 6 0     5 6 0
  • $ – Conference champion
Rankings from AP Poll
1970 Big Ten football standings
Conf     Overall
Team W   L   T     W   L   T
No. 5 Ohio State $ 7 0 0     9 1 0
No. 9 Michigan 6 1 0     9 1 0
Northwestern 6 1 0     6 4 0
Iowa 3 3 1     3 6 1
Wisconsin 3 4 0     4 5 1
Michigan State 3 4 0     4 6 0
Minnesota 2 4 1     3 6 1
Purdue 2 5 0     4 6 0
Illinois 1 6 0     3 7 0
Indiana 1 6 0     1 9 0
  • $ – Conference champion
Rankings from AP Poll
1970 Ivy League football standings
Conf     Overall
Team W   L   T     W   L   T
No. 14 Dartmouth $ 7 0 0     9 0 0
Yale 5 2 0     7 2 0
Harvard 5 2 0     7 2 0
Cornell 4 3 0     6 3 0
Princeton 3 4 0     5 4 0
Penn 2 5 0     4 5 0
Columbia 1 6 0     3 6 0
Brown 1 6 0     2 7 0
  • $ – Conference champion
Rankings from AP Poll
1970 Mid-American Conference football standings
Conf     Overall
Team W   L   T     W   L   T
No. 12 Toledo $ 5 0 0     12 0 0
Miami (OH) 3 2 0     7 3 0
Ohio 3 2 0     4 5 0
Western Michigan 2 3 0     7 3 0
Kent State 1 4 0     3 7 0
Bowling Green 1 4 0     2 6 1
  • $ – Conference champion
Rankings from AP Poll
1970 Missouri Valley Conference football standings
Conf     Overall
Team W   L   T     W   L   T
Louisville $ 4 0 0     8 3 1
Tulsa 3 1 0     6 4 0
Memphis State 2 2 0     6 4 0
North Texas State 1 3 0     3 8 0
Wichita State 0 4 0     0 9 0
  • $ – Conference champion
1970 Pacific Coast Athletic Association football standings
Conf     Overall
Team W   L   T     W   L   T
San Diego State + 5 1 0     9 2 0
Long Beach State + 5 1 0     9 2 1
Fresno State 4 2 0     8 4 0
Pacific (CA) 2 3 0     5 6 0
San Jose State 2 3 0     2 9 0
UC Santa Barbara 1 5 0     2 9 0
Cal State Los Angeles 0 4 0     1 9 0
  • + – Conference co-champions
Rankings from AP Poll
1970 Pacific-8 football standings
Conf     Overall
Team W   L   T     W   L   T
No. 8 Stanford $ 6 1 0     9 3 0
Washington 4 3 0     6 4 0
Oregon 4 3 0     6 4 1
UCLA 4 3 0     6 5 0
California 4 3 0     6 5 0
No. 15 USC 3 4 0     6 4 1
Oregon State 3 4 0     6 5 0
Washington State 0 7 0     1 10 0
  • $ – Conference champion
Rankings from AP Poll
1970 SEC football standings
Conf     Overall
Team W   L   T     W   L   T
No. 7 LSU $ 5 0 0     9 3 0
No. 4 Tennessee 4 1 0     11 1 0
No. 10 Auburn 5 2 0     9 2 0
No. 20 Ole Miss 4 2 0     7 4 0
Florida 3 3 0     7 4 0
Georgia 3 3 0     5 5 0
Alabama 3 4 0     6 5 1
Mississippi State 3 4 0     6 5 0
Vanderbilt 1 5 0     4 7 0
Kentucky 0 7 0     2 9 0
  • $ – Conference champion
Rankings from AP Poll

The 1970 NCAA University Division football season was marked by tragedy, due to two airplane crashes. On October 2, one of the planes carrying the Wichita State football team crashed on the way to a game against Utah State, killing 31 people on board, including 14 players. Then, on November 14, the charter for the Marshall Thundering Herd crashed on the way home from a game against East Carolina, killing all 75 persons.

At season's end, the Nebraska Cornhuskers won the AP national championship after Texas and Ohio State both their lost bowl games on New Year's Day.

This was the first season the NCAA allowed schools to schedule 11 regular season games. Some took advantage by scheduling high-profile intersectional games (Stanford-Arkansas, USC-Alabama, LSU-Notre Dame), but others would not add the 11th game until later in the decade.

During the 20th century, the NCAA had no playoff for the major college football teams, later known as "Division I-A." The NCAA Football Guide, however, did note an "unofficial national champion" based on the top ranked teams in the "wire service" (AP and UPI) polls. The "writers' poll" by Associated Press (AP) was the most popular, followed by the "coaches' poll" by United Press International) (UPI).


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