USA Poll 11/14

Coaches' Poll

Year: 2005

11/14/2005

Week 11

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	USC (55)	1,543	1
2	Texas (7)	1,495	2
3	Miami	1,421	4
4	LSU	1,363	5
5	Penn State	1,251	6
6	Virginia Tech	1,168	8
7	Notre Dame	1,165	7
8	Alabama	1,088	3
9	Ohio State	1,068	10
10	Oregon	1,001	11
11	UCLA	890	14
12	Auburn	872	17
13	West Virginia	842	15
14	Georgia	763	9
15	TCU	672	18
16	Fresno State	557	20
17	Michigan	495	22
18	Louisville	445	23
19	Texas Tech	382	13
20	Florida	322	12
21	South Carolina	252	NR
22	Florida State	236	16
23	Boston College	216	25
24	Wisconsin	147	19
25	UTEP	142	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.