AP Poll Pre

Associated Press Poll

Year: 2001

7/1/2001

Preseason Poll

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	Florida (20)	1,716	10
2	Miami (33)	1,700	2
3	Oklahoma (10)	1,588	1
4	Nebraska (4)	1,525	8
5	Texas (5)	1,461	12
6	Florida State	1,441	5
7	Oregon	1,354	7
8	Tennessee	1,344	NR
9	Virginia Tech	1,169	6
10	Georgia Tech	1,005	17
11	Oregon State	974	4
12	Michigan	919	11
13	Kansas State	902	9
14	LSU	763	22
15	Washington	683	3
16	Northwestern	667	NR
17	UCLA	639	NR
18	Notre Dame	599	15
19	Clemson	569	16
20	Mississippi State	521	24
21	South Carolina	350	19
22	Wisconsin	237	23
23	Ohio State	181	NR
24	Colorado State	179	14
25	Alabama	136	NR

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.