USA Poll 9/21

Coaches' Poll

Year: 2008

9/21/2008

Week 4

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	USC (56)	1,517	1
2	Oklahoma (2)	1,424	2
3	Georgia (2)	1,388	3
4	Florida (1)	1,345	4
5	Missouri	1,284	5
6	LSU	1,247	6
7	Texas	1,143	7
8	Wisconsin	1,041	8
9	Texas Tech	944	10
10	Alabama	939	13
11	BYU	931	11
12	Penn State	818	15
13	Ohio State	744	14
14	South Florida	721	16
15	Wake Forest	678	18
16	Auburn	650	9
17	Utah	528	20
18	Kansas	506	19
19	Clemson	378	21
20	Boise State	265	NR
21	Illinois	233	23
22	Oregon	174	12
23	TCU	151	NR
24	Fresno State	117	NR
25	Vanderbilt	103	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.