AP Poll 11/2

Associated Press Poll

Year: 1998

11/2/1998

Week 9

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	Ohio State (63)	1,743	1
2	Tennessee (3)	1,642	3
3	UCLA (1)	1,601	2
4	Kansas State (3)	1,583	4
5	Florida	1,444	6
6	Florida State	1,433	5
7	Texas A&M	1,280	8
8	Wisconsin	1,248	9
9	Penn State	1,208	10
10	Arizona	1,120	13
11	Arkansas	1,031	14
12	Virginia	958	15
13	Notre Dame	800	16
14	Nebraska	775	7
15	Syracuse	608	17
15	Tulane	608	19
15	Virginia Tech	608	20
18	Missouri	578	18
19	Georgia	543	11
20	Texas	437	NR
21	Oregon	420	12
22	Michigan	274	22
23	Georgia Tech	261	23
24	Miami	182	25
25	Air Force	164	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.