AP Poll 11/16

Associated Press Poll

Year: 1998

11/16/1998

Week 11

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	Tennessee (37)	1,709	1
2	Kansas State (29)	1,699	2
3	UCLA (4)	1,618	3
4	Florida	1,526	4
5	Florida State	1,489	5
6	Texas A&M	1,361	6
7	Ohio State	1,350	7
8	Arizona	1,262	9
9	Arkansas	1,127	10
10	Notre Dame	1,081	12
11	Michigan	1,054	15
12	Tulane	869	14
13	Wisconsin	849	8
14	Georgia	788	17
15	Oregon	754	20
16	Penn State	705	19
17	Nebraska	616	11
18	Virginia	528	21
19	Missouri	456	13
20	Air Force	434	23
21	Georgia Tech	398	22
22	Miami	365	24
23	Virginia Tech	206	16
24	Syracuse	140	NR
25	Texas	117	18

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.