AP Poll 11/20

Associated Press Poll

Year: 2000

11/20/2000

Week 13

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	Oklahoma (70)	1,774	1
2	Miami	1,681	2
3	Florida State (1)	1,645	3
4	Washington	1,570	6
5	Oregon State	1,472	8
6	Virginia Tech	1,402	7
7	Florida	1,251	4
8	Kansas State	1,233	9
9	Nebraska	1,196	10
10	Oregon	1,177	5
11	Notre Dame	1,063	11
12	Texas	819	14
13	TCU	786	15
14	Purdue	778	17
15	Clemson	770	16
16	Michigan	747	19
17	Auburn	727	18
18	Georgia Tech	599	20
19	Georgia	427	22
20	Northwestern	415	23
21	Ohio State	398	12
22	Texas A&M	390	21
23	Mississippi State	266	13
24	LSU	159	NR
25	Tennessee	157	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.