AP Poll Pre

Associated Press Poll

Year: 1993

7/1/1993

Preseason Poll

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	Florida State (42)	1,522	2
2	Alabama (14)	1,472	1
3	Michigan (3)	1,413	5
4	Texas A&M	1,261	7
5	Miami	1,245	3
6	Syracuse (2)	1,180	6
7	Notre Dame	1,137	4
8	Nebraska	1,050	14
9	Florida	998	10
10	Tennessee	976	12
11	Colorado	961	13
12	Washington	890	11
13	Georgia	725	8
14	Arizona	695	NR
15	Stanford (1)	660	9
16	Penn State	598	NR
17	Ohio State	470	18
18	USC	436	NR
19	BYU	323	NR
20	North Carolina	322	19
21	Boston College	299	21
22	Oklahoma	269	NR
23	Clemson	262	NR
24	Mississippi State	165	23
25	NC State	162	17

Associated Press Poll
Started in 1936.

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The Associated Press began running polls of sports writers to determine who is, by popular opinion, the best college football team in the country. The first AP Poll was run in 1934 but was not run continuously until 1936.

The AP Poll currently lists the top 25 teams in the nation. From 1936 to 1961 the poll only ranked the top 20 teams. From 1962 to 1967 it only ranked the top 10 teams. From 1968 to 1988 the AP Poll returned to ranking the top 20 teams. In 1989 they started ranking the top 25 teams.

The AP poll was used in the beginning of the BCS to calculate the team standings. Due to some controversies within the BCS, the AP Poll was pulled from these calculations which caused the BCS to create the new Harris Poll.