AP Poll 11/29

Associated Press Poll

Year: 2004

11/29/2004

Week 13

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	USC (52)	1,610	1
2	Oklahoma (7)	1,540	2
3	Auburn (6)	1,530	3
4	California	1,410	4
5	Utah	1,342	5
6	Texas	1,325	6
7	Louisville	1,175	7
8	Georgia	1,094	8
9	Miami	1,037	9
10	Virginia Tech	980	11
11	Boise State	952	10
12	Iowa	911	12
13	LSU	877	14
14	Michigan	873	13
15	Tennessee	802	15
16	Florida State	628	19
17	Wisconsin	612	20
18	Virginia	469	16
19	Pittsburgh	304	NR
20	Florida	290	25
21	Arizona State	231	18
22	Texas A&M	199	22
23	Boston College	172	17
24	Texas Tech	167	NR
25	Ohio State	143	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.