AP Poll 12/3

Associated Press Poll

Year: 2001

12/3/2001

Week 14

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	Miami (72)	1,800	1
2	Tennessee	1,709	5
3	Oregon	1,624	4
4	Colorado	1,557	9
5	Nebraska	1,468	6
6	Florida	1,360	2
7	Maryland	1,325	7
8	Illinois	1,289	8
9	BYU	1,245	10
10	Texas	1,184	3
11	Oklahoma	1,172	11
12	Stanford	1,050	12
13	Washington State	876	13
14	South Carolina	754	15
15	Virginia Tech	735	14
16	Georgia	687	16
17	Michigan	614	17
18	Syracuse	546	18
19	Fresno State	509	21
20	Washington	499	19
21	LSU	456	22
22	Ohio State	272	23
23	Louisville	216	24
24	Florida State	148	NR
25	Toledo	102	NR

Associated Press Poll
Started in 1936.

More Info

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.