USA Poll 10/12

Coaches' Poll

Year: 2008

10/12/2008

Week 7

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	Texas (44)	1,505	5
2	Alabama (14)	1,452	4
3	Penn State (3)	1,416	6
4	USC	1,198	9
5	Texas Tech	1,195	7
6	Oklahoma	1,147	1
7	Florida	1,145	12
8	BYU	1,143	8
9	Georgia	1,010	10
10	Oklahoma State	958	17
11	Ohio State	920	11
12	Missouri	886	2
13	Utah	819	13
14	LSU	776	3
15	Kansas	676	15
16	Boise State	648	16
17	Michigan State	468	19
18	Virginia Tech	467	18
19	Wake Forest	376	21
20	South Florida	334	20
21	North Carolina	321	NR
22	California	169	25
23	Vanderbilt	147	14
24	TCU	138	NR
25	Ball State	135	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.