AP Poll 11/22

Associated Press Poll

Year: 2004

11/22/2004

Week 12

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	USC (48)	1,603	1
2	Oklahoma (9)	1,541	3
3	Auburn (8)	1,536	2
4	California	1,413	4
5	Utah	1,340	5
6	Texas	1,323	6
7	Louisville	1,166	8
8	Georgia	1,093	11
9	Miami	1,030	12
10	Boise State	920	13
11	Virginia Tech	884	16
12	Iowa	878	17
13	Michigan	863	7
14	LSU	839	14
15	Tennessee	786	15
16	Virginia	594	18
17	Boston College	548	19
18	Arizona State	535	20
19	Florida State	523	10
20	Wisconsin	509	9
21	West Virginia	319	21
22	Texas A&M	289	22
23	Oklahoma State	224	23
24	UTEP	163	24
25	Florida	75	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.