USA Poll 11/22

Coaches' Poll

Year: 2009

11/22/2009

Week 12

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	Florida (47)	1,459	1
2	Texas (4)	1,398	2
3	Alabama (8)	1,388	3
4	TCU	1,279	4
5	Cincinnati	1,224	5
6	Boise State	1,181	6
7	Georgia Tech	1,125	7
8	Ohio State	1,031	8
9	Pittsburgh	1,021	9
10	Oregon	941	11
11	Penn State	843	12
12	Oklahoma State	815	13
13	Iowa	714	15
14	Virginia Tech	656	16
15	BYU	510	18
16	Clemson	467	19
17	LSU	463	10
18	Oregon State	450	20
19	Utah	318	23
20	Houston	305	22
21	Miami	266	24
22	USC	261	21
23	Nebraska	191	25
24	North Carolina	167	26
25	Mississippi	165	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.