NCAA Football Bowl Championship 1998: Week 2

Updated April 3, 2019 | Infoplease Staff

Week 2: November 4, 1998

UCLA, ranked first in the BCS poll a week ago, dropped to third place after barely squeaking by the 1-7 Stanford Cardinal, 28-24. Ohio State moved into the top spot following their 38-7 win over Indiana. Tennessee beat South Carolina 49-14 and moved up to second with UCLA's fall.

Team AP ESPN/USA PAvg. ST Sagarin NYT CAvg Sked Q-Rank L Total
Ohio St. 1 1 1.00 3 (2.25) 2 1 1.75 24 0.96 0 3.71
Tennessee 2 3 2.5 2 3 5 (3.75) 2.92 7 0.28 0 5.70
UCLA 3 4 3.5 1 4 4 3.00 3 0.12 0 6.62
Kansas St. 4 2 3.0 4 (3.0) 1 3 2.33 68 2.72 0 8.05
Florida 5 5 5.0 6 5 6 5.67 8 0.32 1 11.99
Florida St. 6 6 6.0 8 (6.0) 6 2 4.67 15 0.60 1 12.27
Texas A&M 7 8 7.5 7 11 (10.5) 7 8.17 21 0.84 1 17.51
Wisconsin 8 7 7.5 9 10 13 10.67 98 3.92 0 22.09
Penn St. 9 9 9.0 12 13 10 11.67 31 1.24 1 22.91
Arizona 10 11 10.5 10 9 14 (13.5) 10.5 46 1.84 1 23.84
Arkansas 11 10 10.5 5 14 16 (14.25) 11.08 63 3.32 0 24.90
Nebraska 14 15 14.5 11 7 12 10.0 12 0.48 2 26.98
Notre Dame 13 13 13.0 13 22 (15.75) 8 12.25 51 2.04 1 28.29
Texas 20 23 21.5 16 (13.5) 9 9 10.5 17 0.68 2 34.68
Virginia 12 12 12.0 19 20 21 20.0 80 3.20 1 36.20
Tulane 15 16 15.50 14 21 94 (26.25) 20.42 96 3.84 0 39.76
Syracuse 15 17 16.0 29 (26.25) 18 17 20.42 37 1.40 2 39.90


Legend

PAvg.— The average of the Associated Press media poll and ESPN-USA Today coaches poll. Others receiving votes are calculated in order received.

CAvg.— The average of The Hester & Anderson/Seattle Times, Jeff Sagarin's rankings and 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.

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

Losses— One point for each loss during the season.

Notes: BCS rankings each week will list the top 15 or down to the lowest-ranked BCS-affiliated conference leader. Adjusted computer scores in parentheses (Seattle Times' raw scores: Ohio St. 3, Kansas St. 4, Florida St. 8, Texas 18, Syracuse 29; Sagarin's raw scores: Texas A&M 11, Notre Dame 22; New York Times' raw scores: Tennessee 5, Arizona 14, Arkansas 16, Tulane 94).


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