USA Poll 10/19

Coaches' Poll

Year: 2008

10/19/2008

Week 8

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	Texas (58)	1,522	1
2	Alabama (1)	1,436	2
3	Penn State (2)	1,413	3
4	USC	1,264	4
5	Oklahoma	1,218	6
6	Texas Tech	1,210	5
7	Florida	1,184	7
8	Oklahoma State	1,083	10
9	Georgia	1,067	9
10	Ohio State	995	11
11	LSU	903	14
12	Utah	891	13
13	Boise State	786	16
14	South Florida	643	20
15	TCU	582	24
16	Missouri	551	12
17	BYU	464	8
18	Kansas	342	15
19	Tulsa	328	NR
20	Pittsburgh	292	NR
21	Georgia Tech	282	NR
22	Ball State	274	25
23	Florida State	258	NR
24	Northwestern	117	NR
25	Minnesota	165	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.