The NCAA recognizes six selectors as "official" for the 1968 season.
[1] Four of the six teams (AP, UPI, NEA, and FWAA) were selected by polling of sports writers and/or broadcasters.
The AFCA team was based on a poll of coaches.
Other notable selectors, though not recognized by the NCAA as official, included Football News, a national weekly football publication, Time magazine,[2] The Sporting News (TSN), and the Walter Camp Football Foundation (WC).
[3] No single team dominated the All-America selections in 1968 with Ohio State and Notre Dame both having three first-team players.