AP Poll 9/10

Associated Press Poll

Year: 2000

9/10/2000

Week 3

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	Nebraska (41)	1,740	1
2	Florida State (26)	1,720	2
3	Michigan (1)	1,590	3
4	Wisconsin (1)	1,437	5
5	Texas (2)	1,427	6
6	Florida	1,376	8
7	Kansas State	1,368	7
8	Virginia Tech	1,252	10
9	Washington	1,200	15
10	USC	1,040	11
11	Tennessee	961	12
12	Miami	894	4
13	Purdue	884	14
14	UCLA	830	16
15	Alabama	800	13
16	Clemson	789	17
17	Ohio State	688	18
18	Oklahoma	552	20
19	Illinois	494	21
20	TCU	430	22
21	Notre Dame	301	23
22	Michigan State	280	24
23	Georgia	261	9
24	Auburn	193	NR
25	Southern Miss	130	25

Associated Press Poll
Started in 1936.

More Info

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.