AP Poll 12/2

Associated Press Poll

Year: 2002

12/2/2002

Week 15

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	Miami (73)	1,825	1
2	Ohio State	1,749	2
3	Iowa	1,663	4
4	Georgia	1,597	5
5	USC	1,542	6
6	Kansas State	1,402	8
7	Washington State	1,315	9
8	Oklahoma	1,304	3
9	Texas	1,296	10
10	Penn State	1,070	11
11	Notre Dame	1,052	7
12	Colorado	1,041	13
13	Michigan	1,023	12
14	Alabama	943	14
15	West Virginia	616	24
16	Florida State	559	23
17	NC State	495	21
18	Virginia Tech	494	22
19	Boise State	482	19
20	Auburn	470	20
21	Maryland	386	25
22	Arkansas	379	NR
23	Florida	262	15
24	Colorado State	239	16
25	Pittsburgh	221	17

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.