USA Poll 9/25

Coaches' Poll

Year: 2005

9/25/2005

Week 4

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	USC (60)	1,547	1
2	Texas (1)	1,482	2
3	Virginia Tech (1)	1,382	4
4	LSU	1,370	3
5	Florida	1,298	5
6	Georgia	1,239	6
7	Florida State	1,196	7
8	Ohio State	1,083	9
9	Tennessee	968	11
10	Miami	945	12
11	California	876	14
12	Michigan State	688	22
13	Texas Tech	683	16
14	Notre Dame	643	18
15	Arizona State	629	17
16	Alabama	609	20
17	Wisconsin	489	24
18	Virginia	484	19
19	Minnesota	396	NR
20	Purdue	360	10
20	UCLA	360	23
22	Louisville	308	8
23	Boston College	255	25
24	Georgia Tech	133	15
24	Auburn	133	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.