AP Poll Final

Associated Press Poll

Year: 2000

1/5/2001

Week 16

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	Oklahoma (71)	1,775	1
2	Miami	1,690	2
3	Washington	1,634	4
4	Oregon State	1,539	5
5	Florida State	1,488	3
6	Virginia Tech	1,432	6
7	Oregon	1,299	8
8	Nebraska	1,282	9
9	Kansas State	1,258	11
10	Florida	1,128	7
11	Michigan	1,061	17
12	Texas	894	12
13	Purdue	765	14
14	Colorado State	640	23
15	Notre Dame	611	10
16	Clemson	563	16
17	Georgia Tech	545	15
18	Auburn	498	20
19	South Carolina	486	NR
20	Georgia	430	24
21	TCU	406	13
22	LSU	340	NR
23	Wisconsin	208	NR
24	Mississippi State	197	NR
25	Iowa State	188	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.