AP Poll 11/5

Associated Press Poll

Year: 2001

11/5/2001

Week 10

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	Miami (55)	1,781	1
2	Nebraska (17)	1,745	2
3	Oklahoma	1,623	3
4	Florida	1,591	4
5	Texas	1,517	5
6	Tennessee	1,399	7
7	Oregon	1,343	8
8	Washington	1,288	11
9	BYU	1,147	13
10	Florida State	1,060	14
11	Washington State	1,050	16
12	Michigan	922	6
13	Maryland	892	15
14	South Carolina	748	17
15	Illinois	739	21
16	Stanford	731	10
17	UCLA	693	9
18	Syracuse	588	19
19	Georgia	556	18
20	Georgia Tech	501	23
21	Colorado	389	25
22	Michigan State	287	NR
23	Virginia Tech	221	12
24	Auburn	125	NR
25	Louisville	121	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.