USA Poll 11/1

Coaches' Poll

Year: 2009

11/1/2009

Week 9

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	Florida (50)	1,463	1
2	Texas (4)	1,395	3
3	Alabama (5)	1,390	2
4	TCU	1,182	6
5	Boise State	1,176	5
6	Iowa	1,161	8
7	Cincinnati	1,150	7
8	Oregon	1,079	12
9	LSU	1,062	9
10	Penn State	966	10
11	Georgia Tech	934	11
12	Ohio State	730	15
13	USC	729	4
14	Pittsburgh	694	17
15	Houston	672	16
16	Utah	567	19
17	Miami	549	18
18	Oklahoma State	371	13
19	Arizona	320	24
20	Oklahoma	313	23
21	Notre Dame	281	25
22	Wisconsin	204	NR
23	California	197	NR
24	Virginia Tech	193	14
25	BYU	106	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.