AP Poll 11/26

Associated Press Poll

Year: 2001

11/26/2001

Week 13

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	Miami (71)	1,799	1
2	Florida (1)	1,716	3
3	Texas	1,644	5
4	Oregon	1,540	6
5	Tennessee	1,511	7
6	Nebraska	1,318	2
7	Maryland	1,295	8
8	Illinois	1,273	10
9	Colorado	1,261	14
10	BYU	1,244	9
11	Oklahoma	1,163	4
12	Stanford	1,034	13
13	Washington State	846	15
14	Virginia Tech	783	16
15	South Carolina	722	18
16	Georgia	660	19
17	Michigan	616	11
18	Syracuse	528	22
19	Washington	492	12
20	Marshall	460	20
21	Fresno State	404	23
22	LSU	268	NR
23	Ohio State	225	NR
24	Louisville	170	17
25	Auburn	156	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.