USA Poll 10/18

Coaches' Poll

Year: 2009

10/18/2009

Week 7

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	Florida (49)	1,464	1
2	Alabama (9)	1,398	3
3	Texas (1)	1,386	2
4	USC	1,237	5
5	Boise State	1,153	6
6	Cincinnati	1,104	9
7	TCU	1,069	8
8	Iowa	1,037	12
9	Miami	998	11
10	LSU	995	10
11	Penn State	894	13
12	Oklahoma State	795	14
13	Georgia Tech	779	20
14	Oregon	769	16
15	Virginia Tech	672	4
16	BYU	577	19
17	Ohio State	481	7
18	Houston	421	23
19	Pittsburgh	328	NR
20	Utah	300	NR
21	Kansas	222	15
22	West Virginia	188	NR
23	South Carolina	142	22
24	Texas Tech	132	NR
25	Mississippi	114	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.