AP Poll 11/9

Associated Press Poll

Year: 1998

11/9/1998

Week 10

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	Tennessee (46)	1,718	2
2	Kansas State (19)	1,677	4
3	UCLA (4)	1,615	3
4	Florida	1,516	5
5	Florida State (1)	1,510	6
6	Texas A&M	1,319	7
7	Ohio State	1,311	1
8	Wisconsin	1,309	8
9	Arizona	1,189	10
10	Arkansas	1,171	11
11	Nebraska	931	14
12	Notre Dame	899	13
13	Missouri	752	18
14	Tulane	747	16
15	Michigan	729	22
16	Virginia Tech	722	17
17	Georgia	596	19
18	Texas	577	20
19	Penn State	575	9
20	Oregon	498	21
21	Virginia	360	12
22	Georgia Tech	315	23
23	Air Force	260	25
24	Miami	244	24
25	Wyoming	69	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.