AP Poll 9/17

Associated Press Poll

Year: 2000

9/17/2000

Week 4

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	Nebraska (43)	1,747	1
2	Florida State (26)	1,723	2
3	Florida	1,545	6
4	Kansas State (1)	1,459	7
5	Virginia Tech	1,412	8
6	UCLA (1)	1,408	14
7	Wisconsin	1,349	4
8	Washington	1,331	9
9	USC	1,126	10
10	Michigan	1,107	3
11	Clemson	1,030	16
12	Miami	926	12
13	Tennessee	889	11
14	Ohio State	733	17
15	Texas	717	5
16	Notre Dame	705	21
17	Oklahoma	629	18
18	TCU	531	20
19	Illinois	513	19
20	Auburn	445	24
21	Purdue	422	13
22	Southern Miss	380	25
23	Michigan State	274	22
24	Georgia	194	23
25	Mississippi State	128	NR

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.