AP Poll 11/12

Associated Press Poll

Year: 2001

11/12/2001

Week 11

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	Miami (44)	1,768	1
2	Nebraska (28)	1,756	2
3	Oklahoma	1,609	3
4	Florida	1,608	4
5	Texas	1,518	5
6	Tennessee	1,407	6
7	Oregon	1,388	7
8	BYU	1,188	9
9	Washington State	1,187	11
10	Maryland	1,103	13
11	Michigan	1,078	12
12	Illinois	1,020	15
13	Stanford	917	16
14	Syracuse	843	18
15	Colorado	748	21
16	Washington	722	8
17	Auburn	596	24
18	Virginia Tech	459	23
19	Louisville	417	25
20	UCLA	379	17
21	Florida State	368	10
22	South Carolina	341	14
23	Georgia	131	19
24	Marshall	128	NR
25	Ohio State	112	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.