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Coaches' Poll

Year: 2009

7/1/2009

Preseason Poll

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	Florida (53)	1,466	1
2	Texas (4)	1,386	3
3	Oklahoma (1)	1,358	5
4	USC (1)	1,321	2
5	Alabama	1,134	6
6	Ohio State	1,126	11
7	Virginia Tech	1,020	14
8	Penn State	988	8
9	LSU	917	NR
10	Mississippi	889	15
11	Oklahoma State	861	18
12	California	711	25
13	Georgia	707	10
14	Oregon	694	9
15	Georgia Tech	559	22
16	Boise State	542	13
17	TCU	461	7
18	Utah	404	4
19	Florida State	371	23
20	North Carolina	293	NR
21	Iowa	257	20
22	Nebraska	236	NR
23	Notre Dame	194	NR
24	BYU	178	21
25	Oregon State	165	19

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.