Sooners Ranked 19th In AP Poll

Aug. 7, 2000

NORMAN, Okla. - The University of Oklahoma football team is ranked 19th in the preseason Associated Press Top-25 Poll, the team's highest preseason ranking since the writers voted the Sooners 15th in the 1995 version.

OU, which received 455 votes, is one of five Big 12 teams appearing in the top 25. Nebraska is ranked first and is followed by league members Texas (seventh), Kansas State (eighth), Oklahoma and Colorado (24th). Texas A&M finished just out of the poll at 26th.

The Sooners, which were ranked in the AP poll just once last year (23rd on Sept. 26), finished their first season under Head Coach Bob Stoops with a 7-5 record and an Independence Bowl berth.

Oklahoma opens its 2000 slate Sept. 2 versus UTEP at 6:30 p.m. in Norman. The Sooners' first four games of the season are at home.

Preseason AP Top-25 Poll

(first-place votes in parentheses)

1. Nebraska (36)            1,732

2. Florida State (29)       1,720

3. Alabama (3)              1,570

4. Wisconsin (1)            1,408

5. Miami, Fla.              1,392

6. Michigan                 1,380

7. Texas (2)                1,297

8. Kansas State (6)         1,276

9. Florida                  1,255

10. Georgia                 1,226

11. Virginia Tech           1,044

12. Tennessee               940

13. Washington              816

14. Purdue                  751

15. USC                     723

16. Ohio State              601

17. Clemson                 599

18. Mississippi             541

19. Oklahoma                455

20. TCU                     404

21. Illinois                361

22. Penn State              359

23. Southern Miss           224

24. Colorado                166

25. Michigan State          145

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