AP Poll 10/3

Associated Press Poll

Year: 2004

10/3/2004

Week 5

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	USC (48)	1,604	1
2	Oklahoma (15)	1,560	2
3	Georgia (2)	1,491	3
4	Miami	1,409	4
5	Texas	1,358	5
6	Auburn	1,305	8
7	California	1,180	10
8	Florida State	1,149	9
9	Purdue	1,047	15
10	Virginia	1,036	12
11	Utah	937	14
12	Florida	866	16
13	Minnesota	722	18
14	Michigan	666	19
15	Wisconsin	650	20
16	West Virginia	604	6
17	Tennessee	551	11
18	Ohio State	547	7
19	Arizona State	507	21
20	Louisville	478	22
21	Boise State	396	23
22	Oklahoma State	360	25
23	Maryland	263	24
24	LSU	191	13
25	South Carolina	60	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.