USA Poll 9/11

Coaches' Poll

Year: 2011

9/11/2011

Week 2

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	Oklahoma (44)	1,453	1
2	Alabama (8)	1,410	2
3	LSU (7)	1,372	3
4	Boise State	1,214	5
5	Florida State	1,211	4
6	Stanford	1,165	6
7	Oklahoma State	1,072	7
8	Wisconsin	1,033	9
9	Texas A&M	1,001	8
10	Nebraska	911	10
11	South Carolina	863	12
12	Virginia Tech	842	11
13	Arkansas	825	13
14	Oregon	754	14
15	Michigan State	639	16
16	Ohio State	566	15
17	Florida	498	18
18	Arizona State	353	23
19	Auburn	331	22
20	West Virginia	304	24
21	Texas	260	21
22	South Florida	230	NR
23	TCU	211	25
24	Baylor	171	NR
25	Mississippi State	125	17

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.