AP Poll 9/26

Associated Press Poll

Year: 2004

9/26/2004

Week 4

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	USC (46)	1,605	1
2	Oklahoma (18)	1,570	2
3	Georgia (1)	1,452	3
4	Miami	1,435	4
5	Texas	1,365	5
6	West Virginia	1,176	6
7	Ohio State	1,113	7
8	Auburn	1,093	9
9	Florida State	1,074	8
10	California	1,033	10
10	Tennessee	1,033	11
12	Virginia	927	12
13	LSU	842	13
14	Utah	764	14
15	Purdue	669	15
16	Florida	654	16
17	Fresno State	531	17
18	Minnesota	501	19
19	Michigan	498	18
20	Wisconsin	380	20
21	Arizona State	293	22
22	Louisville	265	24
23	Boise State	264	21
24	Maryland	212	23
25	Oklahoma State	135	25

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.