AP Poll 10/8

Associated Press Poll

Year: 2000

10/8/2000

Week 7

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	Nebraska (67)	1,771	2
2	Kansas State (3)	1,640	4
3	Virginia Tech (1)	1,627	3
4	Miami	1,507	7
5	Clemson	1,491	5
6	Ohio State	1,377	8
7	Florida State	1,357	1
8	Oklahoma	1,336	10
9	Oregon	1,140	9
10	Florida	1,068	12
11	Washington	1,035	13
12	TCU	982	14
13	UCLA	862	16
14	Georgia	785	19
15	Mississippi State	776	20
16	Southern Miss	725	17
17	Northwestern	632	22
18	Michigan	614	6
19	Auburn	457	15
20	Notre Dame	322	25
21	Purdue	315	NR
22	Arizona	267	NR
23	Oregon State	261	23
24	South Carolina	239	NR
25	Texas	124	11

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.