USA Poll 10/2

Coaches' Poll

Year: 2011

10/2/2011

Week 5

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	Oklahoma (27)	1,421	1
2	LSU (21)	1,410	3
3	Alabama (10)	1,408	2
4	Stanford	1,237	4
5	Wisconsin (1)	1,236	7
6	Boise State	1,186	5
7	Oklahoma State	1,162	6
8	Clemson	1,028	15
9	Oregon	1,017	11
10	Texas	879	17
11	Michigan	808	19
12	Arkansas	788	18
13	Georgia Tech	728	21
14	South Carolina	559	9
15	Nebraska	557	8
16	Illinois	541	22
17	Virginia Tech	470	10
18	Florida	456	12
19	West Virginia	436	23
20	Michigan State	366	25
21	Kansas State	264	NR
22	Florida State	229	24
23	Auburn	217	NR
24	Arizona State	177	NR
25	Texas A&M	160	13

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.