USA Poll 9/19

Coaches' Poll

Year: 2010

9/19/2010

Week 3

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	Alabama (55)	1,470	1
2	Ohio State (3)	1,410	2
3	Boise State	1,291	3
4	Texas	1,251	4
5	TCU	1,188	5
6	Oregon	1,181	6
7	Nebraska (1)	1,135	8
8	Florida	1,092	7
9	Oklahoma	1,060	9
10	Wisconsin	884	11
11	Arkansas	846	13
12	LSU	801	12
13	Utah	693	14
14	Auburn	655	15
15	South Carolina	612	16
16	Arizona	610	18
17	Stanford	541	19
18	Iowa	463	10
19	Miami	418	17
20	Penn State	335	20
21	West Virginia	315	21
22	Michigan	255	22
23	Michigan State	125	NR
24	Missouri	123	25
25	Oklahoma State	103	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.