AP Poll 11/4

Associated Press Poll

Year: 2002

11/4/2002

Week 11

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	Oklahoma (42)	1,818	2
2	Miami (32)	1,804	1
3	Ohio State	1,705	6
4	Texas	1,564	7
5	Washington State	1,538	8
6	Iowa	1,501	9
7	Georgia	1,304	5
8	Virginia Tech	1,303	3
9	Notre Dame	1,268	4
10	USC	1,210	11
11	Alabama	1,113	12
12	Kansas State	940	14
13	Michigan	899	15
14	NC State	795	10
15	Oregon	667	19
16	LSU	647	17
17	Florida State	561	18
18	Colorado	486	13
19	Penn State	468	20
20	Bowling Green	437	21
21	Iowa State	372	22
22	Pittsburgh	357	NR
23	Florida	327	NR
24	Colorado State	307	24
25	Arizona State	155	16

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.