AP Poll 11/27

Associated Press Poll

Year: 2000

11/27/2000

Week 14

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	Oklahoma (64)	1,765	1
2	Miami (6)	1,696	2
3	Florida State (1)	1,640	3
4	Washington	1,569	4
5	Oregon State	1,472	5
6	Virginia Tech	1,407	6
7	Florida	1,277	7
8	Kansas State	1,230	8
9	Oregon	1,183	10
10	Nebraska	1,142	9
11	Notre Dame	1,082	11
12	Texas	915	12
13	TCU	844	13
14	Purdue	785	14
15	Clemson	750	15
16	Michigan	747	16
17	Georgia Tech	742	18
18	Auburn	720	17
19	Northwestern	499	20
20	Ohio State	449	21
21	Tennessee	321	25
22	Louisville	201	NR
23	Colorado State	170	NR
24	Georgia	126	19
25	Toledo	73	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.