AP Poll 11/25

Associated Press Poll

Year: 2002

11/25/2002

Week 14

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	Miami (71)	1,823	1
2	Ohio State (2)	1,748	2
3	Oklahoma	1,654	4
4	Iowa	1,625	5
5	Georgia	1,513	6
6	USC	1,421	7
7	Notre Dame	1,366	8
8	Kansas State	1,305	10
9	Washington State	1,239	3
10	Texas	1,196	11
11	Penn State	1,019	15
12	Michigan	958	12
13	Colorado	924	16
14	Alabama	849	9
15	Florida	757	19
16	Colorado State	743	20
17	Pittsburgh	619	17
18	LSU	559	21
19	Boise State	372	23
20	Auburn	370	NR
21	NC State	300	NR
22	Virginia Tech	284	13
23	Florida State	255	14
24	West Virginia	251	NR
25	Maryland	120	18

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.