USA Poll 11/22

Coaches' Poll

Year: 2004

11/22/2004

Week 12

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	USC (48)	1,510	1
2	Oklahoma (7)	1,440	2
3	Auburn (6)	1,436	3
4	California	1,299	4
5	Texas	1,260	5
6	Utah	1,246	6
7	Georgia	1,092	10
8	Louisville	1,021	11
9	Miami	950	13
10	Boise State	887	12
11	Virginia Tech	849	15
12	LSU	841	14
13	Michigan	813	7
14	Iowa	704	17
15	Tennessee	684	16
16	Virginia	569	18
17	Florida State	562	8
18	Wisconsin	507	9
19	Boston College	478	19
20	Arizona State	421	21
21	West Virginia	405	20
22	Texas A&M	274	22
23	Oklahoma State	230	23
24	Bowling Green	141	24
25	UTEP	104	25

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.