AP Poll 10/27

Associated Press Poll

Year: 2003

10/27/2003

Week 9

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	Oklahoma (62)	1,622	1
2	Miami (3)	1,563	2
3	USC	1,470	5
4	Georgia	1,378	4
5	Florida State	1,320	6
6	Washington State	1,260	7
7	LSU	1,241	9
8	Ohio State	1,226	8
9	Michigan State	1,041	11
10	Virginia Tech	1,026	3
11	Michigan	939	13
12	Nebraska	924	14
13	Iowa	762	16
14	Oklahoma State	750	18
15	TCU	727	15
16	Texas	605	19
17	Bowling Green	577	23
18	Purdue	487	10
19	Tennessee	449	22
20	Mississippi	278	NR
21	Missouri	265	NR
21	Northern Illinois	265	12
23	Florida	246	25
24	Minnesota	149	NR
25	Pittsburgh	131	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.