AP Poll 10/5

Associated Press Poll

Year: 1998

10/5/1998

Week 5

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	Ohio State (66)	1,746	1
2	Nebraska (1)	1,640	2
3	UCLA (1)	1,575	4
4	Tennessee	1,541	3
5	Kansas State (2)	1,519	5
6	Florida	1,326	8
7	Georgia	1,313	12
8	Florida State	1,235	9
9	Virginia	1,219	10
10	Arizona	1,043	14
11	LSU	1,010	6
12	Wisconsin	937	13
13	Penn State	894	7
14	Colorado	755	15
15	Oregon	747	17
16	West Virginia	728	16
17	Virginia Tech	637	19
18	Texas A&M	594	18
19	USC	462	21
20	Arkansas	404	22
21	Missouri	288	23
22	Notre Dame	274	24
23	NC State	262	NR
24	Syracuse	169	11
25	Tulane	114	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.