AP Poll 11/11

Associated Press Poll

Year: 2002

11/11/2002

Week 12

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	Miami (74)	1,850	2
2	Ohio State	1,771	3
3	Washington State	1,592	5
4	Oklahoma	1,590	1
4	Texas	1,590	4
6	Iowa	1,560	6
7	Georgia	1,403	7
8	USC	1,275	10
9	Notre Dame	1,256	9
10	Alabama	1,175	11
11	Kansas State	1,114	12
12	Michigan	1,021	13
13	Virginia Tech	818	8
14	LSU	816	16
15	Florida State	725	17
16	Penn State	649	19
17	Colorado	628	18
18	Pittsburgh	561	22
19	Maryland	527	NR
20	Florida	437	23
21	Colorado State	391	24
22	NC State	382	14
23	Oregon	344	15
24	Auburn	138	NR
25	TCU	118	NR

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.