USA Poll 10/26

Coaches' Poll

Year: 2008

10/26/2008

Week 9

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	Texas (58)	1,522	1
2	Alabama	1,439	2
3	Penn State (3)	1,414	3
4	Oklahoma	1,265	5
5	Texas Tech	1,246	6
6	USC	1,228	4
7	Florida	1,199	7
8	Georgia	1,137	9
9	Utah	987	12
10	Oklahoma State	972	8
11	Boise State	894	13
12	TCU	813	15
13	Ohio State	752	10
14	Missouri	740	16
15	LSU	573	11
16	Florida State	546	23
17	BYU	545	17
18	Tulsa	524	19
19	Ball State	445	22
20	Minnesota	403	25
21	Michigan State	292	NR
22	North Carolina	232	NR
23	South Florida	153	14
24	Oregon	150	NR
25	Maryland	71	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.