USA Poll 9/14

Coaches' Poll

Year: 2008

9/14/2008

Week 3

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	USC (57)	1,518	1
2	Oklahoma (1)	1,423	3
3	Georgia (2)	1,393	2
4	Florida (1)	1,335	4
5	Missouri	1,294	6
6	LSU	1,233	7
7	Texas	1,128	8
8	Wisconsin	1,027	10
9	Auburn	955	9
10	Texas Tech	887	12
11	BYU	846	15
12	Oregon	783	14
13	Alabama	771	16
14	Ohio State	736	5
15	Penn State	724	17
16	South Florida	685	18
17	East Carolina	508	20
18	Wake Forest	498	19
19	Kansas	416	11
20	Utah	400	22
21	Clemson	233	23
22	West Virginia	159	24
23	Illinois	127	NR
24	Arizona State	113	13
25	Florida State	110	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.