AP Poll 9/2

Associated Press Poll

Year: 2001

9/2/2001

Week 2

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	Miami (37)	1,737	2
2	Florida (19)	1,721	1
3	Oklahoma (10)	1,633	3
4	Texas (4)	1,482	5
5	Nebraska (2)	1,474	4
6	Florida State	1,458	6
7	Oregon	1,357	7
8	Tennessee	1,355	8
9	Virginia Tech	1,200	9
10	Georgia Tech	988	11
11	Michigan	963	12
12	Kansas State	943	13
13	LSU	861	14
14	UCLA	809	17
15	Washington	728	15
16	Northwestern	674	16
17	Notre Dame	604	18
18	Mississippi State	571	20
19	Fresno State	554	NR
20	Clemson	524	19
21	South Carolina	422	21
22	Oregon State	293	10
23	Wisconsin	208	22
24	Ohio State	189	23
25	Georgia	129	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.