AP Poll 12/5

Associated Press Poll

Year: 1999

12/5/1999

Week 15

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	Florida State (64)	1,744	1
2	Virginia Tech (6)	1,685	2
3	Nebraska	1,606	3
4	Wisconsin	1,482	4
5	Alabama	1,450	7
6	Tennessee	1,412	6
7	Kansas State	1,336	8
8	Michigan	1,226	9
9	Michigan State	1,193	10
10	Florida	1,095	5
11	Marshall	1,047	11
12	Minnesota	935	13
13	Penn State	772	14
14	Texas	746	12
15	Mississippi State	727	16
16	Southern Miss	722	15
17	Georgia Tech	672	17
18	Texas A&M	632	18
19	Purdue	504	19
20	East Carolina	431	20
21	Georgia	298	21
22	Stanford	270	22
23	Miami	224	23
24	Arkansas	121	24
25	Boston College	112	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.