AP Poll 8/26

Associated Press Poll

Year: 2001

8/26/2001

Week 1

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	Florida (21)	1,723	1
2	Miami (33)	1,710	2
3	Oklahoma (10)	1,610	3
4	Nebraska (3)	1,472	4
5	Texas (4)	1,467	5
6	Florida State	1,452	6
7	Oregon (1)	1,367	7
8	Tennessee	1,347	8
9	Virginia Tech	1,164	9
10	Oregon State	1,024	11
11	Georgia Tech	945	10
12	Michigan	926	12
13	Kansas State	914	13
14	LSU	780	14
15	Washington	679	15
16	Northwestern	660	16
17	UCLA	641	17
18	Notre Dame	594	18
19	Clemson	568	19
20	Mississippi State	541	20
21	South Carolina	367	21
22	Wisconsin	257	22
23	Ohio State	186	23
24	Colorado State	170	24
25	Alabama	131	25

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.