USA Poll 9/12

Coaches' Poll

Year: 2005

9/12/2005

Week 2

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	USC (59)	1,549	1
2	Texas (3)	1,480	2
3	LSU	1,336	5
4	Virginia Tech	1,311	6
4	Tennessee	1,311	4
6	Georgia	1,202	9
7	Florida	1,173	10
8	Florida State	1,120	11
9	Ohio State	905	7
10	Louisville	872	12
11	Purdue	849	13
12	Notre Dame	781	23
13	Miami	757	14
14	Michigan	696	3
15	California	601	17
16	Boston College	527	18
17	Oklahoma	508	16
18	Georgia Tech	502	21
19	Texas Tech	425	19
20	Virginia	311	20
21	Iowa	286	8
22	Arizona State	285	15
23	Clemson	223	NR
24	Alabama	213	22
25	Fresno State	171	24

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.