AP Poll 10/12

Associated Press Poll

Year: 2003

10/12/2003

Week 7

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	Oklahoma (61)	1,597	1
2	Miami (3)	1,534	2
3	Virginia Tech	1,475	4
4	Georgia	1,385	8
5	USC	1,339	9
6	Washington State	1,161	12
7	Florida State	1,155	5
8	Ohio State	1,091	3
9	Iowa	1,035	14
10	LSU	986	6
11	Arkansas	839	7
12	Northern Illinois	802	16
13	Purdue	751	18
14	Wisconsin	743	23
15	Michigan State	711	21
16	TCU	647	19
17	Michigan	611	20
18	Nebraska	500	10
19	Auburn	363	NR
20	Texas	311	11
21	Tennessee	236	13
22	Oregon State	235	24
23	Oklahoma State	234	NR
24	Missouri	230	NR
25	Minnesota	224	17

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.