AP Poll 11/29

Associated Press Poll

Year: 1999

11/29/1999

Week 14

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	Florida State (64)	1,744	1
2	Virginia Tech (6)	1,685	2
3	Nebraska	1,599	3
4	Wisconsin	1,488	4
5	Florida	1,428	5
6	Tennessee	1,385	6
7	Alabama	1,320	8
8	Kansas State	1,299	9
9	Michigan	1,175	10
10	Michigan State	1,132	11
11	Marshall	1,042	12
12	Texas	957	7
13	Minnesota	871	13
14	Penn State	717	15
15	Southern Miss	707	14
16	Mississippi State	685	18
17	Georgia Tech	652	20
18	Texas A&M	581	24
19	Purdue	485	19
20	East Carolina	432	21
21	Georgia	316	16
22	Stanford	267	NR
23	Miami	140	NR
24	Arkansas	134	17
25	Boston College	114	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.