AP Poll Final

Associated Press Poll

Year: 2003

1/5/2004

Week 16

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	USC (48)	1,608	1
2	LSU (17)	1,576	2
3	Oklahoma	1,476	3
4	Ohio State	1,411	7
5	Miami	1,329	10
6	Michigan	1,281	4
7	Georgia	1,255	11
8	Iowa	1,107	13
9	Washington State	1,060	15
10	Miami (OH)	932	14
11	Florida State	905	9
12	Texas	887	5
13	Mississippi	845	16
14	Kansas State	833	8
15	Tennessee	695	6
16	Boise State	645	18
17	Maryland	564	23
18	Purdue	526	12
19	Nebraska	520	22
20	Minnesota	368	24
21	Utah	308	25
22	Clemson	230	NR
23	Bowling Green	189	NR
24	Florida	165	17
25	TCU	126	19

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.