AP Poll 10/30

Associated Press Poll

Year: 2000

10/30/2000

Week 10

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	Oklahoma (69)	1,749	3
2	Virginia Tech	1,633	2
3	Miami	1,602	4
4	Florida State (1)	1,539	6
5	Nebraska	1,425	1
6	Florida	1,395	8
7	Oregon	1,378	7
8	Washington	1,262	9
9	TCU	1,150	11
10	Clemson	1,071	5
11	Purdue	1,017	16
12	Michigan	925	15
13	Southern Miss	897	14
14	Oregon State	893	18
15	Notre Dame	674	19
16	Ohio State	563	12
17	Georgia	544	13
18	Mississippi State	515	20
19	Kansas State	443	10
20	Texas	399	22
21	Northwestern	391	23
22	South Carolina	283	17
23	Auburn	274	25
24	Texas A&M	240	NR
25	Georgia Tech	178	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.