AP Poll 11/10

Associated Press Poll

Year: 2003

11/10/2003

Week 11

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	Oklahoma (65)	1,625	1
2	USC	1,559	2
3	LSU	1,469	4
4	Ohio State	1,437	7
5	Michigan	1,342	8
6	Texas	1,192	11
7	Georgia	1,166	9
8	Washington State	1,059	12
9	Tennessee	967	18
10	TCU	932	13
11	Purdue	913	16
12	Virginia Tech	910	5
13	Florida State	851	3
14	Miami	814	6
15	Florida	770	17
16	Pittsburgh	761	25
17	Mississippi	686	20
18	Nebraska	586	19
19	Minnesota	391	24
20	Iowa	378	10
21	Michigan State	309	14
21	Northern Illinois	309	23
23	Miami (OH)	304	NR
24	Boise State	127	NR
25	Bowling Green	90	15

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.