AP Poll 10/25

Associated Press Poll

Year: 1999

10/25/1999

Week 9

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	Florida State (55)	1,733	1
2	Penn State (10)	1,684	2
3	Virginia Tech (5)	1,603	4
4	Tennessee	1,515	5
5	Florida	1,456	6
6	Kansas State	1,412	7
7	Georgia Tech	1,329	8
8	Mississippi State	1,180	12
8	Nebraska	1,180	3
10	Georgia	1,072	14
11	Wisconsin	1,010	17
12	Texas	992	18
13	Marshall	921	15
14	Alabama	805	10
15	Michigan	649	9
16	BYU	634	19
17	East Carolina	545	20
18	Purdue	511	16
19	Michigan State	446	11
20	Southern Miss	434	21
21	Ohio State	388	22
22	Texas A&M	264	13
23	Miami	244	23
24	Oklahoma	174	NR
25	Mississippi	171	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.