Final BCS Rankings

The Bowl Championship Series rankings were used for the first time during the 1998 season to determine BCS bowl match-ups and revised slightly for the 1999 season. The final rankings were released Dec. 3, 2000. Note that S-rank refers to schedule rank and L refers to games lost.

		——Polls——			Computer Rankings
		AP	ESPN	Avg.	Bill.	D.I.	K.M.	NYT	D.R.	Sag.	S.H.	S.T.	Avg.	Sched.	S-rank	L	Total
1	Oklahoma	1	1	1.0	1	3	2	3	1	3	2	1	1.86	11	0.44	0	3.30
2	Florida St.	3	3	3.0	2	1	1	1	2	1	1	3	1.29	2	0.08	1	5.37
3	Miami-FL	2	2	2.0	3	2	3	2	3	2	3	4	2.57	3	0.12	1	5.69
4	Washington	4	4	4.0	10	11	5	5	4	8	4	2	5.43	6	0.24	1	10.67
5	Va. Tech	5	6	5.5	5	5	4	4	7	5	7	6	5.14	14	0.56	1	12.20
6	Oregon St.	6	5	5.5	7	9	8	8	5	7	5	5	6.50	42	1.68	1	14.68
7	Florida	7	7	7.0	4	4	7	6	9	6	6	7	5.71	1	0.04	2	14.75
8	Nebraska	8	9	8.5	6	13	6	10	6	4	8	9	7.00	18	0.72	2	18.22
9	Kansas St.	9	11	10.0	8	12	11	12	8	9	11	12	10.14	29	1.16	3	24.30
10	Oregon	11	8	9.5	12	17	14	15	11	14	9	8	11.86	24	0.96	2	24.32
11	Notre Dame	10	10	10.0	14	15	15	8	12	16	10	10	12.07	25	1.00	2	25.07
12	Texas	12	12	12.0	11	6	9	11	10	10	12	15	9.86	84	3.36	2	27.22
13	Ga. Tech	17	15	16.0	9	8	10	7	14	11	13	11	9.86	44	1.76	2	29.62
14	TCU	16	13	14.5	16	7	12	20	15	12	14	20	13.71	95	3.80	1	33.01
15	Clemson	13	16	14.5	13	21	13	19	13	15	15	13	14.43	56	2.24	2	33.17

Explanation Key

Poll Average—The average of the Associated Press media poll and the USA Today/ESPN coaches' poll. Others receiving votes are calculated in order received.

Computer Average—The average of Richard Billingsley (Bill.), Dunkel Index (D.I.), Kenneth Massey (K.M.), The New York Times (NYT), David Rothman (D.R.), Jeff Sagarin's rankings (Sag.), Matthews/Scrippts-Howard (S.H.) and The Anderson & Hester/Seattle Times rankings (S.T.). The computer component will be determined by averaging the seven highest computer rankings. The lowest computer rankings will be disregarded.

Schedule Rank—Rank of schedule strength compared to other Division I-A teams divided by 25. This component is calculated by determining the cumulative won/loss records of the team's opponents (66.6 percent) and the cumulative won/loss record of the team's opponents' opponents (33.3 percent).

Losses—One point for each loss during the season.

2000-2001 Bowl Games

2000–2001 Season

National Championship Game