AP Poll 9/19

Associated Press Poll

Year: 2004

9/19/2004

Week 3

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	USC (54)	1,613	1
2	Oklahoma (10)	1,562	2
3	Georgia (1)	1,456	3
4	Miami	1,437	4
5	Texas	1,358	6
6	West Virginia	1,169	7
7	Ohio State	1,117	9
8	Florida State	1,079	8
9	Auburn	1,064	14
10	California	1,034	10
11	Tennessee	1,031	13
12	Virginia	919	12
13	LSU	844	5
14	Utah	763	15
15	Purdue	652	18
16	Florida	646	11
17	Fresno State	535	19
18	Michigan	478	17
19	Minnesota	475	22
20	Wisconsin	381	20
21	Boise State	307	23
22	Arizona State	210	NR
23	Maryland	208	21
24	Louisville	195	24
25	Oklahoma State	134	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.