AP Poll 11/24

Associated Press Poll

Year: 2003

11/24/2003

Week 13

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	Oklahoma (65)	1,625	1
2	USC	1,558	2
3	LSU	1,492	3
4	Michigan	1,432	5
5	Georgia	1,319	6
6	Texas	1,292	7
7	Tennessee	1,215	9
8	Ohio State	1,171	4
9	Florida State	1,056	11
10	Miami	1,019	14
11	Florida	975	13
12	Purdue	860	16
13	Iowa	770	17
14	Kansas State	692	19
15	Miami (OH)	665	18
16	Washington State	654	8
17	Mississippi	567	15
18	Boise State	437	20
19	TCU	407	10
20	Pittsburgh	406	21
21	Virginia Tech	279	12
22	Bowling Green	270	22
23	Oklahoma State	205	24
24	West Virginia	203	25
25	Nebraska	158	23

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.