USA Poll 10/17

Coaches' Poll

Year: 2005

10/17/2005

Week 7

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	USC (54)	1,540	1
2	Texas (7)	1,492	2
3	Virginia Tech (1)	1,428	3
4	Georgia	1,361	4
5	Alabama	1,255	7
6	Miami	1,218	6
7	LSU	1,154	8
8	Texas Tech	1,079	11
9	UCLA	1,053	12
10	Florida State	934	5
11	Boston College	859	14
12	Notre Dame	846	9
13	Ohio State	742	15
14	Penn State	726	10
15	Auburn	655	20
16	Oregon	588	21
17	Wisconsin	553	23
18	Tennessee	543	18
19	Florida	450	13
20	West Virginia	405	25
21	TCU	221	NR
22	Michigan State	190	17
23	California	175	16
24	Virginia	120	NR
25	Minnesota	90	22

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.