USA Poll 10/10

Coaches' Poll

Year: 2004

10/10/2004

Week 6

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	USC (45)	1,509	1
2	Oklahoma (2)	1,476	2
3	Miami (1)	1,398	4
4	Auburn	1,341	6
5	Purdue	1,160	10
6	Virginia	1,142	9
7	Florida State	1,135	8
8	Georgia	978	3
9	California	942	7
10	Utah	931	11
11	Texas	911	5
12	Wisconsin	881	16
13	Michigan	862	14
14	Tennessee	732	17
15	Oklahoma State	570	21
16	West Virginia	530	18
17	Louisville	512	20
18	Boise State	498	19
19	Arizona State	486	22
20	Minnesota	423	13
21	LSU	405	24
22	Florida	299	12
23	Ohio State	157	15
24	Missouri	99	NR
25	Southern Miss	88	NR

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.