USA Poll Final

Coaches' Poll

Year: 2004

1/5/2005

Week 15

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	USC	1,525	1
2	Auburn	1,460	3
3	Oklahoma	1,366	2
4	Texas	1,324	5
5	Utah	1,300	6
6	Georgia	1,191	7
7	Louisville	1,166	8
8	Iowa	1,022	13
9	California	937	4
10	Virginia Tech	906	9
11	Miami	903	14
12	Michigan	802	12
13	Boise State	792	10
14	Florida State	776	15
15	Tennessee	771	17
16	LSU	693	11
17	Texas Tech	478	21
18	Wisconsin	449	16
19	Ohio State	430	22
20	Arizona State	377	24
21	Boston College	245	NR
22	Fresno State	206	NR
23	Virginia	157	18
24	Navy	129	NR
25	Florida	101	19

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.