AP Poll 11/30

Associated Press Poll

Year: 1998

11/30/1998

Week 13

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	Tennessee (41)	1,669	1
2	Kansas State (24)	1,638	2
3	UCLA (3)	1,579	3
4	Florida State	1,501	4
5	Ohio State	1,427	5
6	Arizona	1,358	7
7	Florida	1,280	8
8	Wisconsin	1,173	10
9	Tulane	1,043	11
10	Texas A&M	1,014	6
11	Arkansas	941	13
12	Georgia Tech	843	17
13	Nebraska	831	14
14	Virginia	811	16
15	Michigan	809	15
16	Notre Dame	667	9
17	Air Force	617	18
18	Syracuse	576	21
19	Georgia	490	12
20	Texas	402	NR
21	Oregon	324	22
22	Penn State	315	23
23	Mississippi State	275	25
24	Missouri	230	24
25	Virginia Tech	105	20

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.