AP Poll 9/7

Associated Press Poll

Year: 2003

9/7/2003

Week 2

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	Oklahoma (47)	1,549	1
2	Miami (2)	1,448	3
3	Ohio State (8)	1,398	2
4	USC (4)	1,380	4
5	Michigan (2)	1,332	5
6	Texas	1,267	6
7	Kansas State	1,198	7
8	Georgia	1,085	8
9	Virginia Tech	1,075	9
10	Florida State	998	11
11	Pittsburgh	980	10
12	LSU	896	13
13	Tennessee	879	12
14	Wisconsin	669	18
15	Notre Dame	615	19
16	Arizona State	507	20
17	Colorado	493	24
18	Nebraska	435	23
19	Florida	383	21
20	Wake Forest	330	NR
21	Washington	286	22
22	TCU	195	25
23	Iowa	184	NR
24	NC State	181	14
25	South Carolina	127	NR

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.