USA Poll 11/21

Coaches' Poll

Year: 2010

11/21/2010

Week 12

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	Oregon (48)	1,459	1
2	Auburn (4)	1,398	2
3	Boise State (5)	1,341	3
4	TCU (2)	1,300	4
5	Wisconsin	1,211	5
6	LSU	1,175	6
7	Ohio State	1,116	7
8	Stanford	1,112	8
9	Oklahoma State	990	10
10	Michigan State	927	11
11	Alabama	885	12
12	Arkansas	784	13
13	Oklahoma	733	14
14	Virginia Tech	723	15
15	Nebraska	614	9
16	Missouri	585	16
17	South Carolina	577	17
18	Texas A&M	492	19
19	Nevada	456	18
20	Arizona	279	23
21	Florida State	243	NR
22	Utah	228	24
23	NC State	208	NR
24	Iowa	74	20
25	Mississippi State	68	22

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.