AP Poll 10/6

Associated Press Poll

Year: 2002

10/6/2002

Week 7

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	Miami (73)	1,849	1
2	Oklahoma	1,707	3
3	Texas (1)	1,698	2
4	Virginia Tech	1,632	4
5	Ohio State	1,552	5
6	Georgia	1,485	7
7	Oregon	1,390	8
8	Notre Dame	1,349	9
9	Florida State	1,182	11
10	Tennessee	1,132	10
11	Iowa State	1,000	15
12	Washington State	998	17
13	Michigan	986	14
14	NC State	877	16
15	Penn State	710	20
16	Florida	687	6
17	Iowa	582	24
18	LSU	569	21
19	Kansas State	435	13
20	USC	301	18
21	Air Force	298	NR
22	Washington	293	12
23	Wisconsin	223	19
24	Auburn	222	NR
25	Mississippi	173	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.