USA Poll 11/16

Coaches' Poll

Year: 2008

11/16/2008

Week 12

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	Alabama (45)	1,508	1
2	Texas Tech (15)	1,465	2
3	Florida (1)	1,373	3
4	Texas	1,322	5
5	Oklahoma	1,305	4
6	USC	1,245	6
7	Utah	1,113	7
8	Penn State	1,093	8
9	Boise State	1,023	9
10	Ohio State	957	10
11	Missouri	894	11
12	Oklahoma State	838	13
13	Georgia	832	12
14	BYU	690	14
15	Michigan State	654	15
16	Ball State	613	16
17	TCU	533	18
18	LSU	429	20
19	Pittsburgh	406	21
20	Cincinnati	358	22
21	Oregon State	321	25
22	Oregon	169	NR
23	Maryland	140	NR
24	Northwestern	117	NR
25	Boston College	97	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.