AP Poll 9/28

Associated Press Poll

Year: 2003

9/28/2003

Week 5

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	Oklahoma (57)	1,615	1
2	Miami (3)	1,554	2
3	Ohio State (5)	1,457	4
4	Virginia Tech	1,382	5
5	Florida State	1,347	6
6	LSU	1,332	7
7	Tennessee	1,267	8
8	Arkansas	1,133	9
9	Michigan	982	11
10	USC	975	3
11	Georgia	973	12
12	Nebraska	897	15
13	Texas	880	14
14	Washington State	738	21
15	Pittsburgh	559	17
16	Kansas State	544	16
17	Northern Illinois	524	20
18	Washington	501	18
19	Oregon	389	10
20	TCU	383	19
21	Minnesota	378	24
22	Purdue	337	22
23	Iowa	310	13
24	Florida	129	25
25	Michigan State	128	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.