AP Poll 12/9

Associated Press Poll

Year: 2002

12/9/2002

Week 16

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	Miami (74)	1,850	1
2	Ohio State	1,773	2
3	Iowa	1,678	3
4	Georgia	1,627	4
5	USC	1,559	5
6	Kansas State	1,397	6
7	Washington State	1,388	7
8	Oklahoma	1,371	8
9	Texas	1,297	9
10	Penn State	1,107	10
11	Notre Dame	1,104	11
12	Michigan	1,061	13
13	Alabama	984	14
14	Colorado	758	12
15	West Virginia	706	15
16	Florida State	661	16
17	NC State	570	17
18	Boise State	505	19
19	Auburn	483	20
20	Maryland	446	21
21	Virginia Tech	409	18
22	Florida	309	23
23	Colorado State	277	24
24	Pittsburgh	255	25
25	Arkansas	160	22

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.