AP Poll 11/8

Associated Press Poll

Year: 1999

11/8/1999

Week 11

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	Florida State (66)	1,746	1
2	Virginia Tech (4)	1,656	3
3	Tennessee	1,599	4
4	Florida	1,523	5
5	Kansas State	1,495	6
6	Penn State	1,328	2
7	Nebraska	1,296	9
8	Mississippi State	1,288	8
9	Wisconsin	1,206	10
10	Texas	1,085	11
11	Alabama	1,006	12
12	Marshall	947	13
13	Georgia Tech	853	7
14	Georgia	825	14
15	BYU	805	15
16	Michigan	749	16
17	Michigan State	680	19
18	Mississippi	508	23
19	Miami	486	22
20	Minnesota	357	NR
21	Southern Miss	310	25
22	Purdue	288	17
23	Washington	213	NR
24	East Carolina	99	18
25	Ohio State	89	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.