AP Poll 10/14

Associated Press Poll

Year: 2001

10/14/2001

Week 7

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	Miami (48)	1,772	2
2	Oklahoma (21)	1,739	3
3	Nebraska (2)	1,631	4
4	UCLA (1)	1,530	7
5	Oregon	1,506	5
6	Virginia Tech	1,473	6
7	Florida	1,298	1
8	Fresno State	1,280	8
9	Texas	1,251	11
10	Michigan	1,159	12
11	Tennessee	924	13
12	Maryland	832	22
13	Clemson	747	16
14	Colorado	744	20
15	Washington	725	10
16	South Carolina	710	9
17	Georgia	669	19
18	BYU	599	18
19	Washington State	581	NR
20	Auburn	568	NR
21	Florida State	285	14
22	Northwestern	238	NR
23	Georgia Tech	234	15
24	Purdue	222	17
25	Toledo	183	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.