AP Poll 10/18

Associated Press Poll

Year: 2004

10/18/2004

Week 7

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	USC (50)	1,610	1
2	Oklahoma (13)	1,567	2
3	Auburn (2)	1,478	4
4	Miami	1,448	3
5	Florida State	1,304	7
6	Wisconsin	1,240	10
7	California	1,215	8
8	Texas	1,081	9
9	Utah	1,072	11
10	Georgia	1,040	12
11	Tennessee	999	13
12	Purdue	957	5
13	Michigan	895	14
14	Virginia	738	6
15	Louisville	627	18
15	West Virginia	627	17
17	Texas A&M	561	23
18	LSU	528	20
19	Boise State	467	21
20	Florida	450	22
21	Arizona State	305	15
22	Oklahoma State	273	16
23	Virginia Tech	194	NR
24	Notre Dame	134	NR
25	Iowa	62	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.