Final BCS Rankings

The Bowl Championship Series rankings were used for the first time during the 1998 season to determine BCS bowl match-ups. The final rankings were released Dec. 6, 1998. Note that Q-rank refers to Quartile rank and L refers to games lost.

		——Polls ——			———— Computer Rankings ————
		AP	ESPN	Avg.	Sea. Times	Sagarin	NY Times	Avg.	Sched.	Q-rank	L	Total
1	Tennessee	1	1	1	1	2	2	1.67	20	0.80	0	3.47
2	Florida St.	2	2	2	2	2.25 (3)	1	1.75	4	0.16	1	4.91
3	Kansas St.	4	4	4	4	1	4 (5)	3.00	49	1.96	1	9.96
4	Ohio St.	3	3	3	6.75 (7)	6	3	5.25	28	1.12	1	10.37
5	UCLA	6	5	5.5	3	4	5.25 (6)	4.08	8	0.32	1	10.90
6	Texas A&M	8	9	8.5	6	5	4	5.00	5	0.20	2	15.70
7	Arizona	5	6	5.5	5	9	9	7.67	58	2.32	1	16.49
8	Florida	7	7	7	10	8	11	9.67	32	1.28	2	19.95
9	Wisconsin	9	8	8.5	9	10	10	9.67	61	2.44	1	21.61
10	Tulane	10	10	10	8	14	16.5 (23)	12.83	96	3.84	0	26.67
11	Nebraska	14	16	15	11	7	13.5 (15)	10.50	14	0.56	3	29.06
12	Virginia	13	12	12.5	13	18	17	16.00	43	1.72	2	32.22
13	Arkansas	11	11	11.0	17	12	21.75 (22)	16.92	59	2.36	2	32.28
14	Georgia Tech	12	14	13.0	16	20	12	16.00	44	1.76	2	32.76
15	Syracuse	18	17	17.5	17.25 (24)	16	7	13.42	22	0.88	3	34.80

Explanation Key

Poll Average—The average of the Associated Press media poll and the USA Today/ESPN coaches' poll. Others receiving votes are calculated in order received.

Computer Average—The average of The Hester & Anderson/Seattle Times, Jeff Sagarin's rankings and The New York Times rankings. In order to prevent differences in individual formulas, a maximum adjusted deviation of no greater than 50 percent of the average of the two lowest computer rankings is utilized. That number appears in parenthesis.

Quartile Rank—Rank of schedule strength compared to other Division I-A teams divided by 25. This component is calculated by determining the cumulative won/loss records of the team's opponents (66.6 percent) and the cumulative won/loss record of the team's opponents' opponents (33.3 percent).

Losses—One point for each loss during the season.

1998-99 Bowl Games

1998-99 Season

National Championship Game