AP Poll Pre

Associated Press Poll

Year: 2000

7/1/2000

Preseason Poll

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	Nebraska (36)	1,732	3
2	Florida State (29)	1,720	1
3	Alabama (3)	1,570	8
4	Wisconsin (1)	1,408	4
5	Miami	1,392	15
6	Michigan	1,380	5
7	Texas (2)	1,297	21
8	Kansas State	1,276	6
9	Florida	1,255	12
10	Georgia	1,226	16
11	Virginia Tech	1,044	2
12	Tennessee	940	9
13	Washington	816	NR
14	Purdue	751	25
15	USC	723	NR
16	Ohio State	601	NR
17	Clemson	599	NR
18	Mississippi	541	22
19	Oklahoma	455	NR
20	TCU	404	NR
21	Illinois	361	24
22	Penn State	359	11
23	Southern Miss	224	14
24	Colorado	166	NR
25	Michigan State	145	7

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.