AP Poll 9/7

Associated Press Poll

Year: 1993

9/7/1993

Week 2

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	Florida State (50)	1,535	1
2	Alabama (10)	1,464	2
3	Michigan (2)	1,426	4
4	Miami	1,301	3
5	Texas A&M	1,225	5
6	Syracuse	1,179	6
7	Florida	1,097	8
8	Tennessee	1,075	10
9	Nebraska	1,057	9
10	Colorado	1,051	11
11	Notre Dame	996	7
12	Washington	959	12
13	Arizona	764	13
14	North Carolina	729	16
15	Penn State	708	17
16	Ohio State	637	18
17	Oklahoma	489	21
18	NC State	345	24
19	South Carolina	327	NR
20	BYU	323	19
21	Clemson	288	22
22	Georgia	191	14
23	Stanford	187	15
24	Baylor	153	NR
25	Boston College	116	20

Associated Press Poll
Started in 1936.

More Info

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.