AP Poll 10/12

Associated Press Poll

Year: 1998

10/12/1998

Week 6

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	Ohio State (64)	1,744	1
2	UCLA (1)	1,647	3
3	Tennessee (3)	1,622	4
4	Kansas State (2)	1,554	5
5	Florida	1,449	6
6	Florida State	1,369	8
7	Virginia	1,314	9
8	Nebraska	1,201	2
9	Wisconsin	1,100	12
10	Texas A&M	1,099	18
11	Oregon	1,021	15
12	Penn State	1,011	13
13	Georgia	889	7
14	Virginia Tech	833	17
15	West Virginia	806	16
16	Arizona	673	10
17	Arkansas	578	20
18	Notre Dame	477	22
19	Colorado	462	14
20	Missouri	457	21
21	LSU	441	11
22	Texas Tech	228	NR
23	Syracuse	187	24
24	Tulane	171	25
25	Georgia Tech	117	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.