USA Poll 11/23

Coaches' Poll

Year: 2008

11/23/2008

Week 13

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	Alabama (56)	1,518	1
2	Oklahoma (4)	1,412	5
3	Florida (1)	1,401	3
4	Texas	1,370	4
5	USC	1,288	6
6	Penn State	1,157	8
7	Utah	1,153	7
8	Texas Tech	1,073	2
9	Boise State	1,033	9
10	Ohio State	994	10
11	Missouri	896	11
12	Oklahoma State	858	12
13	Georgia	842	13
14	TCU	695	17
15	Ball State	673	16
16	Cincinnati	572	20
17	Oregon State	544	21
18	Oregon	397	22
19	BYU	321	14
20	Northwestern	310	24
21	Michigan State	296	15
22	Boston College	290	25
23	Georgia Tech	241	NR
24	Florida State	204	NR
25	West Virginia	83	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.