AP Poll 9/6

Associated Press Poll

Year: 1999

9/6/1999

Week 2

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	Florida State (31)	1,698	1
2	Penn State (26)	1,691	2
3	Tennessee (11)	1,631	3
4	Florida (1)	1,446	4
5	Nebraska	1,402	5
6	Michigan	1,394	7
7	Texas A&M	1,371	6
8	Miami	1,258	8
9	Wisconsin	1,183	9
10	Georgia Tech	1,091	10
11	Virginia Tech (1)	1,025	11
12	Georgia	974	12
13	Ohio State	786	13
14	UCLA	719	17
15	Arkansas	626	18
16	Notre Dame	573	16
17	Kansas State	526	19
18	USC	524	21
19	Arizona	517	15
20	Purdue	510	22
21	Alabama	434	20
22	Virginia	314	23
23	NC State	209	24
24	Colorado State	176	NR
25	Arizona State	124	25

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.