AP Poll 11/17

Associated Press Poll

Year: 2003

11/17/2003

Week 12

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	Oklahoma (65)	1,625	1
2	USC	1,559	2
3	LSU	1,474	3
4	Ohio State	1,431	4
5	Michigan	1,356	5
6	Georgia	1,205	7
7	Texas	1,192	6
8	Washington State	1,140	8
9	Tennessee	1,092	9
10	TCU	989	10
11	Florida State	918	13
12	Virginia Tech	845	12
13	Florida	842	15
13	Miami	842	14
15	Mississippi	805	17
16	Purdue	683	11
17	Iowa	572	20
18	Miami (OH)	530	23
19	Kansas State	464	NR
20	Boise State	330	24
21	Pittsburgh	239	16
22	Bowling Green	212	25
23	Nebraska	124	18
24	Oklahoma State	118	NR
25	West Virginia	109	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.