AP Poll Pre

Associated Press Poll

Year: 2002

7/1/2002

Preseason Poll

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	Miami (27)	1,746	1
2	Oklahoma (21)	1,732	6
3	Florida State (10)	1,683	15
4	Texas (13)	1,682	5
5	Tennessee (3)	1,601	4
6	Florida	1,313	3
7	Colorado	1,291	9
8	Georgia	1,179	22
9	Washington	1,133	19
10	Nebraska	1,131	8
11	Washington State	1,096	10
12	Michigan	1,061	20
13	Ohio State	1,029	NR
14	LSU	832	7
15	Oregon	736	2
16	Virginia Tech	583	18
17	Louisville	574	17
18	Michigan State	468	NR
19	Marshall	433	NR
20	USC	420	NR
21	Maryland	318	11
22	South Carolina	268	13
23	Texas A&M	247	NR
24	Penn State	221	NR
25	Wisconsin	193	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.