AP Poll 10/28

Associated Press Poll

Year: 2002

10/28/2002

Week 10

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	Miami (59)	1,832	1
2	Oklahoma (14)	1,788	2
3	Virginia Tech	1,611	3
4	Notre Dame (1)	1,597	6
5	Georgia	1,582	5
6	Ohio State	1,575	4
7	Texas	1,351	7
8	Washington State	1,271	9
9	Iowa	1,269	13
10	NC State	1,232	12
11	USC	1,100	15
12	Alabama	955	19
13	Colorado	894	21
14	Kansas State	778	20
15	Michigan	702	8
16	Arizona State	625	23
17	LSU	604	10
18	Florida State	551	11
19	Oregon	536	14
20	Penn State	388	18
21	Bowling Green	361	24
22	Iowa State	335	17
23	Minnesota	327	25
24	Colorado State	144	NR
25	Tennessee	119	16

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.