USA Poll 12/4

Coaches' Poll

Year: 2006

12/4/2006

Week 14

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	Ohio State (62)	1,550	1
2	Florida	1,470	4
3	Michigan	1,444	3
4	LSU	1,299	5
5	Wisconsin	1,263	6
6	Louisville	1,223	7
7	USC	1,173	2
8	Oklahoma	1,115	10
9	Boise State	1,053	9
10	Auburn	1,000	11
11	Notre Dame	923	12
12	West Virginia	800	15
13	Arkansas	798	8
14	Virginia Tech	781	14
15	Wake Forest	745	16
16	Texas	582	17
17	Rutgers	567	13
18	Tennessee	500	19
19	California	436	20
20	BYU	369	21
21	Texas A&M	303	24
22	Nebraska	242	18
23	Boston College	175	25
24	TCU	95	NR
25	Oregon State	72	NR
25	Georgia Tech	72	22

Coaches' Poll
Started in 1950.

More Info

The Coaches' Poll began as a top 20 list in 1950 and was published by United Press International (UPI). In 1990 the poll began listing the top 25 teams.

This poll was published by the UPI until 1991 when USA Today and CNN took it over. ESPN replaced CNN in 1997 as the co-sponsor. After the controversial results in the BCS in 2004, ESPN left and the poll is currently run by USA Today only.

Since the inception of the BCS, the Coaches' Poll must vote the number one team in the BCS poll as number one also. This was supposed to eliminate the possibility of split national titles until the before mentioned 2004 controversy. The winner of the Coaches' Poll is awarded the Waterford Crystal National Championship Coaches' Trophy.