AP Poll 9/5

Associated Press Poll

Year: 2004

9/5/2004

Week 1

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	USC (51)	1,609	1
2	Oklahoma (10)	1,548	2
3	Georgia (4)	1,481	3
4	Florida State	1,326	5
5	Miami	1,306	6
6	LSU	1,292	4
7	Texas	1,276	7
8	Michigan	1,260	8
9	Ohio State	1,012	9
10	West Virginia	987	10
11	Florida	840	11
12	California	839	12
13	Kansas State	732	13
14	Tennessee	662	14
15	Virginia	642	16
16	Iowa	578	19
17	Utah	570	20
18	Auburn	552	17
19	Missouri	535	18
20	Clemson	490	15
21	Wisconsin	346	21
22	Minnesota	259	25
23	Maryland	195	22
24	Oregon	181	23
25	Purdue	131	24

Associated Press Poll
Started in 1936.

More Info

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.