AP Poll 9/21

Associated Press Poll

Year: 2003

9/21/2003

Week 4

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	Oklahoma (55)	1,612	1
2	Miami (3)	1,537	2
3	USC (2)	1,495	4
4	Ohio State (5)	1,415	5
5	Virginia Tech	1,304	8
6	Florida State	1,265	10
7	LSU	1,257	11
8	Tennessee	1,227	12
9	Arkansas	978	14
10	Oregon	966	22
11	Michigan	918	3
12	Georgia	888	7
13	Iowa	877	18
14	Texas	788	13
15	Nebraska	737	15
16	Kansas State	540	6
17	Pittsburgh	457	9
18	Washington	441	19
19	TCU	409	20
20	Northern Illinois	392	NR
21	Washington State	265	24
22	Purdue	234	25
23	Missouri	175	23
24	Minnesota	168	NR
25	Florida	142	17

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.