AP Poll 9/14

Associated Press Poll

Year: 2003

9/14/2003

Week 3

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	Oklahoma (50)	1,601	1
2	Miami (3)	1,508	2
3	Michigan (4)	1,457	5
4	USC (2)	1,445	4
5	Ohio State (6)	1,402	3
6	Kansas State	1,248	7
7	Georgia	1,230	8
8	Virginia Tech	1,151	9
9	Pittsburgh	1,061	11
10	Florida State	1,054	10
11	LSU	999	12
12	Tennessee	956	13
13	Texas	677	6
14	Arkansas	651	NR
15	Nebraska	647	18
16	Arizona State	643	16
17	Florida	602	19
18	Iowa	521	23
19	Washington	352	21
20	TCU	309	22
21	Alabama	223	NR
22	Oregon	150	NR
23	Missouri	149	NR
24	Washington State	141	NR
25	Purdue	122	NR

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.