During the 20th century, the NCAA had no playoff for the college football
teams that would later be described 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 1961 consisted
of the votes of 45 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 Bowl (near Los Angeles at Pasadena), the
Sugar Bowl (New Orleans, Louisiana), the Orange Bowl (Miami, Florida), and the Cotton Bowl (Dallas, Texas). Taken from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1961_college_football_season
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