USA Poll 10/3

Coaches' Poll

Year: 2010

10/3/2010

Week 5

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	Alabama (57)	1,449	1
2	Ohio State (1)	1,377	2
3	Oregon	1,300	4
4	Boise State	1,276	3
5	TCU	1,187	5
6	Nebraska	1,176	6
7	Oklahoma	1,132	8
8	Auburn	988	11
9	LSU	930	10
10	Utah	868	12
11	Arizona	835	14
12	Florida	705	7
13	Arkansas	683	15
14	Miami	679	17
15	Iowa	643	18
16	Michigan State	625	21
17	Michigan	541	19
18	Stanford	448	13
19	Wisconsin	414	9
20	South Carolina	345	22
21	Oklahoma State	299	24
22	Missouri	271	23
23	Nevada	201	25
24	Florida State	164	NR
25	Northwestern	67	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.