AP Poll 9/1

Associated Press Poll

Year: 2003

9/1/2003

Week 1

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	Oklahoma (30)	1,566	1
2	Ohio State (25)	1,538	2
3	Miami (2)	1,482	3
4	USC (6)	1,389	8
5	Michigan (2)	1,351	4
6	Texas	1,302	5
7	Kansas State	1,241	7
8	Georgia	1,135	11
9	Virginia Tech	1,094	9
10	Pittsburgh	996	10
11	Florida State	930	13
12	Tennessee	883	12
13	LSU	828	14
14	NC State	815	16
15	Virginia	641	18
16	Purdue	533	19
17	Auburn	524	6
18	Wisconsin	512	21
19	Notre Dame	507	20
20	Arizona State	309	22
21	Florida	268	NR
22	Washington	222	17
23	Nebraska	204	NR
24	Colorado	188	NR
25	TCU	131	25

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.