AP Poll 10/13

Associated Press Poll

Year: 2002

10/13/2002

Week 8

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	Miami (65)	1,841	1
2	Oklahoma (9)	1,776	2
3	Virginia Tech	1,675	4
4	Ohio State	1,608	5
5	Georgia	1,555	6
6	Oregon	1,463	7
7	Notre Dame	1,403	8
8	Texas	1,235	3
9	Iowa State	1,146	11
10	Washington State	1,116	12
11	Michigan	1,114	13
12	Florida State	1,032	9
13	NC State	980	14
14	LSU	914	18
15	Iowa	830	17
16	Tennessee	639	10
17	Kansas State	619	19
18	Air Force	583	21
19	USC	506	20
20	Penn State	435	15
21	Mississippi	358	25
22	Washington	354	22
23	Colorado	213	NR
24	Alabama	165	NR
25	Bowling Green	83	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.