USA Poll 11/29

Coaches' Poll

Year: 2009

11/29/2009

Week 13

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	Florida (53)	1,468	1
2	Texas (3)	1,394	2
3	Alabama (3)	1,380	3
4	TCU	1,285	4
5	Cincinnati	1,231	5
6	Boise State	1,197	6
7	Ohio State	1,104	8
8	Oregon	1,061	10
9	Penn State	975	11
10	Iowa	889	13
11	Virginia Tech	831	14
12	Georgia Tech	774	7
13	BYU	680	15
14	LSU	674	17
15	Pittsburgh	631	9
16	Oregon State	607	18
17	Miami	509	21
18	Houston	473	20
19	USC	361	22
20	Nebraska	335	23
21	Oklahoma State	309	12
22	California	210	NR
23	West Virginia	163	NR
24	Stanford	154	NR
25	Utah	120	19

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.