USA Poll 11/30

Coaches' Poll

Year: 2008

11/30/2008

Week 14

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	Alabama (58)	1,521	1
2	Oklahoma (2)	1,397	2
3	Texas	1,396	4
4	Florida (1)	1,385	3
5	USC	1,298	5
6	Penn State	1,176	6
7	Utah	1,153	7
8	Texas Tech	1,116	8
9	Boise State	1,044	9
10	Ohio State	999	10
11	TCU	836	14
12	Cincinnati	770	16
13	Ball State	765	15
14	Oregon	658	18
15	Oklahoma State	613	12
16	Georgia Tech	590	23
17	Missouri	470	11
18	BYU	461	19
19	Georgia	440	13
20	Boston College	435	22
21	Michigan State	414	21
22	Northwestern	333	20
23	Pittsburgh	154	NR
24	Oregon State	127	17
25	Mississippi	126	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.