AP Poll 11/1

Associated Press Poll

Year: 2004

11/1/2004

Week 9

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	USC (56)	1,616	1
2	Oklahoma (8)	1,556	2
3	Auburn (1)	1,507	3
4	California	1,362	7
5	Wisconsin	1,359	6
6	Texas	1,230	8
7	Utah	1,212	9
8	Georgia	1,162	10
9	Tennessee	1,132	11
10	Michigan	1,062	12
11	Miami	1,035	4
12	Virginia	815	13
13	Florida State	803	5
14	Louisville	793	14
15	West Virginia	754	15
16	Boise State	685	18
17	LSU	557	19
18	Virginia Tech	515	22
19	Oklahoma State	469	21
20	Iowa	416	23
21	Southern Miss	209	25
22	Texas A&M	206	16
23	Arizona State	189	20
24	Boston College	111	NR
25	UTEP	69	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.