USA Poll 10/21

Coaches' Poll

Year: 2007

10/21/2007

Week 8

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	Ohio State (58)	1,498	1
2	Boston College (2)	1,412	2
3	LSU	1,319	5
4	Oklahoma	1,306	4
5	Oregon	1,225	6
6	West Virginia	1,134	7
7	Arizona State	1,089	12
8	USC	1,060	10
9	Virginia Tech	1,052	11
10	Kansas	911	15
11	Florida	906	14
12	South Florida	813	3
13	Missouri	790	17
14	Hawaii	617	16
15	Kentucky	604	13
16	Texas	527	18
17	South Carolina	474	8
18	Virginia	466	24
19	Georgia	402	20
20	California	397	9
21	Michigan	325	NR
22	Penn State	294	25
23	Auburn	179	19
24	Alabama	177	NR
25	Wisconsin	105	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.