USA Poll 9/6

Coaches' Poll

Year: 2009

9/6/2009

Week 1

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	Florida (56)	1,472	1
2	Texas (2)	1,407	2
3	USC (1)	1,352	4
4	Alabama	1,299	5
5	Penn State	1,145	8
6	Oklahoma State	1,114	11
7	Ohio State	1,106	6
8	Mississippi	1,006	10
9	LSU	977	9
10	California	935	12
11	Boise State	803	16
12	BYU	755	24
13	Georgia Tech	685	15
14	Oklahoma	682	3
15	Virginia Tech	633	7
16	TCU	543	17
17	Utah	503	18
18	Nebraska	360	22
19	North Carolina	358	20
20	Notre Dame	335	23
21	Georgia	304	13
22	Miami	276	NR
23	Cincinnati	187	NR
24	Oregon State	169	25
25	Kansas	139	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.