USA Poll 11/9

Coaches' Poll

Year: 2008

11/9/2008

Week 11

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	Alabama (44)	1,508	1
2	Texas Tech (17)	1,469	3
3	Florida	1,348	5
4	Oklahoma	1,314	4
5	Texas	1,300	7
6	USC	1,268	6
7	Utah	1,104	9
8	Penn State	1,074	2
9	Boise State	1,028	10
10	Ohio State	936	12
11	Missouri	883	13
12	Georgia	842	14
13	Oklahoma State	808	8
14	BYU	679	16
15	Michigan State	660	17
16	Ball State	590	18
17	North Carolina	543	19
18	TCU	475	11
19	Florida State	426	24
20	LSU	409	15
21	Pittsburgh	311	NR
22	Cincinnati	183	NR
23	South Carolina	155	NR
24	Tulsa	144	NR
25	Oregon State	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.