AP Poll Final

Associated Press Poll

Year: 2004

1/5/2005

Week 15

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	USC (62)	1,622	1
2	Auburn (3)	1,559	3
3	Oklahoma	1,454	2
4	Utah	1,438	5
5	Texas	1,391	6
6	Louisville	1,261	7
7	Georgia	1,204	8
8	Iowa	1,111	11
9	California	1,060	4
10	Virginia Tech	996	9
11	Miami	917	14
12	Boise State	888	10
13	Tennessee	868	15
14	Michigan	842	13
15	Florida State	754	17
16	LSU	711	12
17	Wisconsin	482	16
18	Texas Tech	476	23
19	Arizona State	463	21
20	Ohio State	423	24
21	Boston College	314	25
22	Fresno State	203	NR
23	Virginia	157	18
24	Navy	126	NR
25	Pittsburgh	99	19

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.