AP Poll 10/29

Associated Press Poll

Year: 2001

10/29/2001

Week 9

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	Miami (55)	1,783	1
2	Nebraska (17)	1,745	3
3	Oklahoma	1,596	2
4	Florida	1,587	6
5	Texas	1,522	7
6	Michigan	1,374	8
7	Tennessee	1,323	9
8	Oregon	1,218	11
9	UCLA	1,214	4
10	Stanford	1,074	20
11	Washington	1,012	13
12	Virginia Tech	981	5
13	BYU	972	16
14	Florida State	822	19
15	Maryland	659	10
16	Washington State	605	14
17	South Carolina	598	12
18	Georgia	462	15
19	Syracuse	459	NR
20	Purdue	428	24
21	Illinois	406	22
22	North Carolina	319	23
23	Georgia Tech	316	21
24	Texas A&M	279	NR
25	Colorado	218	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.