USA Poll 10/31

Coaches' Poll

Year: 2005

10/31/2005

Week 9

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	USC (56)	1,544	1
2	Texas (5)	1,485	2
3	Virginia Tech (1)	1,431	3
4	Alabama	1,349	5
5	Miami	1,285	6
6	LSU	1,215	7
7	UCLA	1,200	8
8	Florida State	1,060	9
9	Notre Dame	988	10
10	Georgia	966	4
11	Penn State	927	12
12	Ohio State	827	13
13	Oregon	782	14
14	Wisconsin	739	15
15	Florida	648	18
16	West Virginia	597	17
17	Texas Tech	596	16
18	Auburn	514	19
19	Boston College	445	11
20	TCU	398	20
21	California	327	21
22	Fresno State	248	24
23	Michigan	178	NR
24	Colorado	121	NR
25	Louisville	113	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.