AP Poll 8/26

Associated Press Poll

Year: 2002

8/26/2002

Week 1

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	Miami (27)	1,758	1
1	Oklahoma (27)	1,758	2
3	Texas (13)	1,689	4
4	Tennessee (3)	1,616	5
5	Florida State (4)	1,589	3
6	Florida	1,327	6
7	Colorado	1,286	7
8	Georgia	1,212	8
9	Nebraska	1,157	10
10	Ohio State	1,142	13
11	Washington	1,127	9
12	Washington State	1,089	11
13	Michigan	1,042	12
14	LSU	822	14
15	Oregon	744	15
16	Virginia Tech	642	16
17	Louisville	583	17
18	Michigan State	458	18
19	Marshall	450	19
20	USC	410	20
21	Maryland	280	21
22	South Carolina	264	22
23	Texas A&M	244	23
24	Penn State	208	24
25	NC State	161	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.