AP Poll 10/1

Associated Press Poll

Year: 2000

10/1/2000

Week 6

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	Florida State (42)	1,745	2
2	Nebraska (28)	1,731	1
3	Virginia Tech	1,576	4
4	Kansas State (1)	1,574	5
5	Clemson	1,451	7
6	Michigan	1,353	9
7	Miami	1,274	10
8	Ohio State	1,218	12
9	Oregon	1,031	20
10	Oklahoma	1,017	14
11	Texas	999	13
12	Florida	940	3
13	Washington	920	6
14	TCU	875	16
15	Auburn	869	19
16	UCLA	831	15
17	Southern Miss	608	21
18	USC	514	8
19	Georgia	455	25
20	Mississippi State	406	NR
21	Tennessee	364	11
22	Northwestern	312	NR
23	Oregon State	279	NR
24	Wisconsin	210	17
25	Notre Dame	118	NR

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.