USA Poll 12/6

Coaches' Poll

Year: 2009

12/6/2009

Week 14

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	Alabama (54)	1,470	3
2	Texas (4)	1,409	2
3	TCU	1,336	4
4	Cincinnati (1)	1,280	5
5	Florida	1,240	1
6	Boise State	1,216	6
7	Oregon	1,096	8
8	Ohio State	1,077	7
9	Penn State	950	9
10	Georgia Tech	921	12
11	Iowa	918	10
12	Virginia Tech	829	11
13	LSU	718	14
14	BYU	702	13
15	Miami	611	17
16	Pittsburgh	506	15
17	West Virginia	429	23
18	Oklahoma State	404	21
19	Nebraska	391	20
20	Oregon State	368	16
21	Stanford	253	24
22	Wisconsin	247	NR
23	Arizona	237	NR
24	Utah	183	25
25	Houston	106	18

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.