USA Poll 11/29

Coaches' Poll

Year: 2004

11/29/2004

Week 13

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	USC (48)	1,509	1
2	Oklahoma (6)	1,442	2
3	Auburn (7)	1,435	3
4	California	1,314	4
5	Texas	1,266	5
6	Utah	1,222	6
7	Georgia	1,100	7
8	Louisville	1,038	8
9	Miami	983	9
10	Boise State	926	10
11	Virginia Tech	915	11
12	LSU	887	12
13	Michigan	824	13
14	Iowa	787	14
15	Tennessee	706	15
16	Florida State	606	17
17	Wisconsin	568	18
18	Virginia	411	16
19	Florida	251	NR
20	Texas Tech	208	NR
21	Pittsburgh	193	NR
22	Ohio State	172	NR
23	Arizona State	167	20
24	West Virginia	158	21
25	Texas A&M	152	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.