AP Poll 9/12

Associated Press Poll

Year: 1999

9/12/1999

Week 3

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	Florida State (49)	1,725	1
2	Tennessee (13)	1,650	3
3	Penn State (6)	1,619	2
4	Florida (1)	1,446	4
4	Nebraska	1,446	5
6	Michigan	1,403	6
7	Texas A&M	1,342	7
8	Miami	1,267	8
9	Wisconsin	1,184	9
10	Virginia Tech (1)	1,046	11
11	Georgia	996	12
12	Georgia Tech	981	10
13	Ohio State	901	13
14	Purdue	764	20
15	Arkansas	677	15
16	Kansas State	654	17
17	USC	602	18
18	Alabama	550	21
19	Arizona	452	19
20	NC State	349	23
21	UCLA	303	14
22	Arizona State	234	25
23	Colorado State	207	24
24	Notre Dame	171	16
25	BYU	156	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.