USA Poll 9/5

Coaches' Poll

Year: 2010

9/5/2010

Week 1

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	Alabama (55)	1,470	1
2	Ohio State (4)	1,397	2
3	Boise State	1,304	5
4	Texas	1,264	4
5	TCU	1,144	7
6	Florida	1,130	3
7	Nebraska	1,085	9
8	Oregon	1,054	11
9	Iowa	1,027	10
10	Oklahoma	969	8
11	Wisconsin	821	12
12	Miami	799	13
13	Virginia Tech	698	6
14	Penn State	655	14
15	Arkansas	531	19
16	LSU	527	16
17	Georgia Tech	519	17
18	Florida State	500	20
19	Georgia	458	21
20	Auburn	371	23
20	Utah	371	24
22	West Virginia	185	25
23	Arizona	128	NR
24	BYU	113	NR
25	South Carolina	90	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.