AP Poll 9/19

Associated Press Poll

Year: 1999

9/19/1999

Week 4

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	Florida State (59)	1,738	1
2	Penn State (7)	1,658	3
3	Florida (3)	1,628	4
4	Michigan	1,447	6
5	Texas A&M	1,426	7
6	Nebraska	1,412	5
7	Tennessee	1,396	2
8	Virginia Tech (1)	1,157	10
9	Miami	1,130	8
10	Georgia Tech	1,101	12
11	Georgia	1,096	11
12	Ohio State	960	13
13	Purdue	927	14
14	Arkansas	858	15
15	Kansas State	778	16
16	USC	637	17
17	BYU	526	25
18	UCLA	452	21
19	Michigan State	435	NR
20	Wisconsin	390	9
21	Marshall	297	NR
22	Texas	252	NR
23	Mississippi State	211	NR
24	Air Force	145	NR
25	NC State	142	20

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.