AP Poll 11/18

Associated Press Poll

Year: 2002

11/18/2002

Week 13

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	Miami (74)	1,850	1
2	Ohio State	1,766	2
3	Washington State	1,628	3
4	Oklahoma	1,622	4
5	Iowa	1,617	6
6	Georgia	1,472	7
7	USC	1,341	8
8	Notre Dame	1,284	9
9	Alabama	1,264	10
10	Kansas State	1,171	11
11	Texas	1,124	5
12	Michigan	1,060	12
13	Virginia Tech	847	13
14	Florida State	796	15
15	Penn State	755	16
16	Colorado	754	17
17	Pittsburgh	638	18
18	Maryland	637	19
19	Florida	572	20
20	Colorado State	511	21
21	LSU	344	14
22	TCU	246	25
23	Boise State	212	NR
24	Texas Tech	145	NR
25	UCLA	121	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.