AP Poll 9/21

Associated Press Poll

Year: 1998

9/21/1998

Week 3

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	Ohio State (64)	1,744	1
2	Nebraska (1)	1,601	3
3	UCLA (1)	1,562	4
4	Tennessee (2)	1,542	6
5	Kansas State (2)	1,522	5
6	LSU	1,389	7
7	Penn State	1,255	8
8	Florida	1,242	2
9	Washington	1,217	9
10	Florida State	1,043	11
11	Virginia	1,011	10
12	Syracuse	981	13
13	Georgia	930	12
14	Wisconsin	783	14
15	Colorado	714	15
16	Arizona	684	16
17	Texas A&M	613	17
18	USC	604	18
19	West Virginia	538	19
20	Oregon	399	22
21	Virginia Tech	304	NR
22	Alabama	277	24
23	Air Force	155	NR
23	Notre Dame	155	23
25	Missouri	132	21

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.