AP Poll 10/3

Associated Press Poll

Year: 1999

10/3/1999

Week 6

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	Florida State (64)	1,744	1
2	Penn State (5)	1,672	2
3	Michigan	1,606	4
4	Nebraska	1,537	6
5	Virginia Tech (1)	1,427	8
6	Tennessee	1,346	7
7	Georgia Tech	1,294	9
8	Florida	1,211	3
9	Kansas State	1,151	13
10	Georgia	1,145	10
11	Michigan State	1,111	14
12	Alabama	858	21
13	Texas A&M	855	5
14	Mississippi State	851	16
15	Marshall	692	17
16	East Carolina	690	19
17	Purdue	649	11
18	Syracuse	586	22
19	Miami	487	18
20	Wisconsin	425	NR
21	Ohio State	313	12
22	USC	281	NR
23	Texas	218	15
24	BYU	121	NR
25	Minnesota	102	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.