AP Poll Final

Associated Press Poll

Year: 1999

1/5/2000

Week 16

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	Florida State (70)	1,750	1
2	Virginia Tech	1,647	2
3	Nebraska	1,634	3
4	Wisconsin	1,519	4
5	Michigan	1,406	8
6	Kansas State	1,402	7
7	Michigan State	1,357	9
8	Alabama	1,236	5
9	Tennessee	1,168	6
10	Marshall	1,136	11
11	Penn State	1,038	13
12	Florida	941	10
13	Mississippi State	923	15
14	Southern Miss	788	16
15	Miami	678	23
16	Georgia	640	21
17	Arkansas	575	24
18	Minnesota	452	12
19	Oregon	358	NR
20	Georgia Tech	345	17
21	Texas	340	14
22	Mississippi	281	NR
23	Texas A&M	272	18
24	Illinois	201	NR
25	Purdue	198	19

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.