AP Poll 11/15

Associated Press Poll

Year: 1999

11/15/1999

Week 12

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	Florida State (63)	1,719	1
2	Virginia Tech (6)	1,658	2
3	Florida	1,565	4
4	Nebraska	1,534	7
5	Wisconsin	1,424	9
6	Texas	1,277	10
7	Tennessee	1,263	3
8	Alabama	1,250	11
9	Kansas State	1,136	5
10	Michigan	1,045	16
11	Marshall	1,002	12
12	Mississippi State	945	8
13	Penn State	923	6
14	Georgia Tech	898	13
15	Michigan State	844	17
16	Mississippi	639	18
17	Minnesota	580	20
18	Southern Miss	445	21
19	BYU	357	15
19	Purdue	357	22
21	Georgia	338	14
22	Arkansas	234	NR
23	East Carolina	232	24
24	Texas A&M	172	NR
25	Boston College	164	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.