AP Poll 11/19

Associated Press Poll

Year: 2001

11/19/2001

Week 12

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	Miami (52)	1,777	1
2	Nebraska (20)	1,746	2
3	Florida	1,615	4
4	Oklahoma	1,613	3
5	Texas	1,519	5
6	Oregon	1,404	7
7	Tennessee	1,372	6
8	Maryland	1,197	10
9	BYU	1,188	8
10	Illinois	1,130	12
11	Michigan	1,103	11
12	Washington	987	16
13	Stanford	958	13
14	Colorado	867	15
15	Washington State	788	9
16	Virginia Tech	657	18
17	Louisville	609	19
18	South Carolina	575	22
19	Georgia	434	23
20	Marshall	354	24
21	Georgia Tech	284	NR
22	Syracuse	272	14
23	Fresno State	207	NR
24	Arkansas	189	NR
25	Boston College	148	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.