AP Poll 11/3

Associated Press Poll

Year: 2003

11/3/2003

Week 10

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	Oklahoma (65)	1,625	1
2	USC	1,557	3
3	Florida State	1,429	5
4	LSU	1,393	7
5	Virginia Tech	1,354	10
6	Miami	1,294	2
7	Ohio State	1,286	8
8	Michigan	1,178	11
9	Georgia	1,000	4
10	Iowa	953	13
11	Texas	915	16
12	Washington State	868	6
13	TCU	766	15
14	Michigan State	742	9
15	Bowling Green	632	17
16	Purdue	623	18
17	Florida	615	23
18	Tennessee	484	19
19	Nebraska	442	12
20	Mississippi	414	20
21	Oklahoma State	298	14
22	Missouri	288	21
23	Northern Illinois	287	22
24	Minnesota	199	24
25	Pittsburgh	186	25

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.