AP Poll 9/12

Associated Press Poll

Year: 2004

9/12/2004

Week 2

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	USC (52)	1,611	1
2	Oklahoma (10)	1,552	2
3	Georgia (3)	1,478	3
4	Miami	1,398	5
5	LSU	1,344	6
6	Texas	1,311	7
7	West Virginia	1,087	10
8	Florida State	1,058	4
9	Ohio State	1,030	9
10	California	969	12
11	Florida	955	11
12	Virginia	812	15
13	Tennessee	798	14
14	Auburn	739	18
15	Utah	699	17
16	Iowa	665	16
17	Michigan	577	8
18	Purdue	557	25
19	Fresno State	454	NR
20	Wisconsin	404	21
21	Maryland	392	23
22	Minnesota	340	22
23	Boise State	201	NR
24	Louisville	153	NR
25	Memphis	86	NR

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.