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Bowl Championship Series Rankings

Final Week: December 7, 1998

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

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.