USA Poll 9/27

Coaches' Poll

Year: 2009

9/27/2009

Week 4

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	Florida (58)	1,474	1
2	Texas (1)	1,410	2
3	Alabama	1,364	3
4	LSU	1,226	7
5	Boise State	1,144	8
6	Virginia Tech	1,091	12
7	USC	1,081	10
8	Oklahoma	1,055	9
9	Ohio State	1,036	11
10	TCU	928	14
11	Cincinnati	848	15
12	Oklahoma State	665	16
13	Penn State	627	4
14	Georgia	616	17
15	Houston	539	23
16	Kansas	508	19
17	Iowa	462	NR
18	Mississippi	424	5
19	California	356	6
20	Michigan	304	22
21	Miami	298	13
21	BYU	298	20
23	Missouri	295	21
24	Nebraska	242	24
25	Oregon	198	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.