USA Poll 11/7

Coaches' Poll

Year: 2005

11/7/2005

Week 10

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	USC (56)	1,544	1
2	Texas (6)	1,494	2
3	Alabama	1,398	4
4	Miami	1,385	5
5	LSU	1,283	6
6	Penn State	1,139	11
7	Notre Dame	1,124	9
8	Virginia Tech	1,116	3
9	Georgia	1,093	10
10	Ohio State	962	12
11	Oregon	919	13
12	Florida	754	15
13	Texas Tech	745	17
14	UCLA	744	7
15	West Virginia	710	16
16	Florida State	667	8
17	Auburn	619	18
18	TCU	491	20
19	Wisconsin	385	14
20	Fresno State	360	22
21	Colorado	302	24
22	Michigan	275	23
23	Louisville	242	25
24	Georgia Tech	117	NR
25	Boston College	56	19

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.