USA Poll 10/5

Coaches' Poll

Year: 2008

10/5/2008

Week 6

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	Oklahoma (60)	1,524	1
2	Missouri	1,404	3
3	LSU (1)	1,398	2
4	Alabama	1,339	4
5	Texas	1,305	5
6	Penn State	1,203	6
7	Texas Tech	1,101	8
8	BYU	1,086	7
9	USC	1,055	9
10	Georgia	937	10
11	Ohio State	893	12
12	Florida	883	13
13	Utah	793	15
14	Vanderbilt	704	19
15	Kansas	667	16
16	Boise State	624	18
17	Oklahoma State	523	22
18	Virginia Tech	393	24
19	Michigan State	273	NR
20	South Florida	267	11
21	Wake Forest	247	25
22	Northwestern	231	NR
23	Auburn	121	14
24	Wisconsin	105	17
25	California	98	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.