AP Poll 11/13

Associated Press Poll

Year: 2000

11/13/2000

Week 12

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	Oklahoma (70)	1,774	1
2	Miami	1,690	2
3	Florida State	1,629	3
4	Florida	1,551	5
5	Oregon	1,490	6
6	Washington	1,429	7
7	Virginia Tech	1,328	8
8	Oregon State	1,263	10
9	Kansas State	1,124	16
10	Nebraska	1,101	4
11	Notre Dame	1,006	11
12	Ohio State	957	13
13	Mississippi State	896	15
14	Texas	725	19
15	TCU	679	18
16	Clemson	662	17
17	Purdue	603	9
18	Auburn	599	22
19	Michigan	543	20
20	Georgia Tech	469	24
21	Texas A&M	328	23
22	Georgia	322	14
23	Northwestern	284	12
24	Southern Miss	238	25
25	South Carolina	121	21

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.