USA Poll 10/3

Coaches' Poll

Year: 2005

10/3/2005

Week 5

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	USC (60)	1,547	1
2	Texas (1)	1,483	2
3	Virginia Tech (1)	1,425	3
4	Georgia	1,332	6
5	Florida State	1,287	7
6	Ohio State	1,169	8
7	Tennessee	1,124	9
8	Miami	1,081	10
9	California	993	11
10	Alabama	982	16
11	LSU	953	4
12	Notre Dame	850	14
13	Texas Tech	770	13
14	Wisconsin	737	17
15	Florida	717	5
16	UCLA	497	21
17	Boston College	439	23
18	Penn State	438	NR
19	Michigan State	418	12
20	Arizona State	374	15
21	Auburn	336	25
22	Louisville	326	22
23	Georgia Tech	182	24
24	Michigan	175	NR
25	Virginia	111	18

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.