AP Poll 9/29

Associated Press Poll

Year: 2002

9/29/2002

Week 6

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	Miami (71)	1,847	1
2	Texas (2)	1,729	3
3	Oklahoma (1)	1,724	2
4	Virginia Tech	1,605	5
5	Ohio State	1,537	6
6	Florida	1,411	7
7	Georgia	1,393	8
8	Oregon	1,299	9
9	Notre Dame	1,245	10
10	Tennessee	1,087	11
11	Florida State	1,039	4
12	Washington	912	13
13	Kansas State	858	15
14	Michigan	851	14
15	Iowa State	817	19
16	NC State	724	17
17	Washington State	701	16
18	USC	700	18
19	Wisconsin	541	21
20	Penn State	337	12
21	LSU	327	22
22	Alabama	246	NR
23	Texas A&M	230	24
24	Iowa	228	NR
25	Colorado State	206	25

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.