AP Poll 10/20

Associated Press Poll

Year: 2003

10/20/2003

Week 8

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	Oklahoma (62)	1,622	1
2	Miami (3)	1,558	2
3	Virginia Tech	1,498	3
4	Georgia	1,394	4
5	USC	1,378	5
6	Florida State	1,213	7
6	Washington State	1,213	6
8	Ohio State	1,161	8
9	LSU	1,087	10
10	Purdue	957	13
11	Michigan State	918	15
12	Northern Illinois	885	12
13	Michigan	744	17
14	Nebraska	732	18
15	TCU	685	16
16	Iowa	623	9
17	Auburn	593	19
18	Oklahoma State	467	23
19	Texas	435	20
20	Wisconsin	402	14
21	Arkansas	331	11
22	Tennessee	295	21
23	Bowling Green	189	NR
24	Utah	171	NR
25	Florida	156	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.