AP Poll 11/15

Associated Press Poll

Year: 2004

11/15/2004

Week 11

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	USC (51)	1,608	1
2	Auburn (6)	1,536	3
2	Oklahoma (8)	1,536	2
4	California	1,409	5
5	Utah	1,316	7
6	Texas	1,301	6
7	Michigan	1,279	9
7	Louisville	1,279	12
9	Wisconsin	1,012	4
10	Florida State	1,004	11
11	Georgia	979	8
12	Miami	834	18
13	Boise State	797	14
14	LSU	786	17
15	Tennessee	733	15
15	Virginia Tech	733	16
17	Iowa	626	19
18	Virginia	541	10
19	Boston College	490	21
20	Arizona State	442	20
21	West Virginia	330	13
22	Texas A&M	274	22
23	Oklahoma State	223	25
24	UTEP	152	23
25	Bowling Green	42	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.