AP Poll 10/17

Associated Press Poll

Year: 1999

10/17/1999

Week 8

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	Florida State (62)	1,742	1
2	Penn State (6)	1,678	2
3	Nebraska	1,580	3
4	Virginia Tech (2)	1,561	4
5	Tennessee	1,419	6
6	Florida	1,368	7
7	Kansas State	1,297	9
8	Georgia Tech	1,247	8
9	Michigan	1,157	10
10	Alabama	1,089	11
11	Michigan State	987	5
12	Mississippi State	976	12
13	Texas A&M	934	13
14	Georgia	813	14
15	Marshall	758	15
16	Purdue	754	20
17	Wisconsin	717	17
18	Texas	532	19
19	BYU	446	21
20	East Carolina	301	23
21	Southern Miss	282	25
22	Ohio State	220	18
23	Miami	186	24
24	Minnesota	162	NR
25	Mississippi	126	22

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.