AP Poll 9/28

Associated Press Poll

Year: 1998

9/28/1998

Week 4

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	Ohio State (58)	1,737	1
2	Nebraska (7)	1,660	2
3	Tennessee (2)	1,544	4
4	UCLA (1)	1,538	3
5	Kansas State (2)	1,503	5
6	LSU	1,395	6
7	Penn State	1,293	7
8	Florida	1,275	8
9	Florida State	1,151	10
10	Virginia	1,069	11
11	Syracuse	1,050	12
12	Georgia	971	13
13	Wisconsin	885	14
14	Arizona	823	16
15	Colorado	701	15
16	West Virginia	626	19
17	Oregon	613	20
18	Texas A&M	570	17
19	Virginia Tech	531	21
20	Washington	492	9
21	USC	294	18
22	Arkansas	226	NR
23	Missouri	218	25
23	Notre Dame	218	24
25	Michigan	64	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.