AP Poll 10/26

Associated Press Poll

Year: 1998

10/26/1998

Week 8

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	Ohio State (64)	1,744	1
2	UCLA (1)	1,641	2
3	Tennessee (3)	1,617	3
4	Kansas State (2)	1,565	4
5	Florida State	1,438	6
6	Florida	1,437	5
7	Nebraska	1,250	7
8	Texas A&M	1,240	8
9	Wisconsin	1,209	9
10	Penn State	1,118	10
11	Georgia	1,036	11
12	Oregon	997	12
13	Arizona	887	14
14	Arkansas	847	15
15	Virginia	811	16
16	Notre Dame	621	18
17	Syracuse	476	21
18	Missouri	472	19
19	Tulane	463	22
20	Virginia Tech	394	23
21	West Virginia	291	13
22	Michigan	231	NR
23	Georgia Tech	175	20
24	Colorado	164	17
25	Miami	119	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.