USA Poll 9/19

Coaches' Poll

Year: 2005

9/19/2005

Week 3

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	USC (60)	1,548	1
2	Texas (2)	1,483	2
3	LSU	1,364	3
4	Virginia Tech	1,350	4
5	Florida	1,292	7
6	Georgia	1,240	6
7	Florida State	1,180	8
8	Louisville	1,035	10
9	Ohio State	972	9
10	Purdue	909	11
11	Tennessee	863	5
12	Miami	852	13
13	Michigan	736	14
14	California	722	15
15	Georgia Tech	654	18
16	Texas Tech	523	19
17	Arizona State	395	22
18	Notre Dame	385	12
19	Virginia	358	20
20	Alabama	340	24
21	Iowa	277	21
22	Michigan State	256	NR
23	UCLA	232	NR
24	Wisconsin	205	NR
25	Boston College	163	16

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.