USA Poll Final

Coaches' Poll

Year: 2009

1/7/2010

Week 15

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	Alabama (58)	1,450	1
2	Texas	1,360	2
3	Florida	1,323	5
4	Boise State	1,312	6
5	Ohio State	1,190	8
6	TCU	1,104	3
7	Iowa	1,087	11
8	Penn State	1,071	9
9	Cincinnati	943	4
10	Virginia Tech	940	12
11	Oregon	846	7
12	BYU	814	14
13	Georgia Tech	741	10
14	Nebraska	671	19
15	Pittsburgh	667	16
16	Wisconsin	587	22
17	LSU	530	13
18	Utah	466	24
19	Miami	336	15
20	USC	217	NR
21	Mississippi	192	NR
22	West Virginia	159	17
23	Texas Tech	152	NR
24	Central Michigan	123	NR
25	Oklahoma State	92	18

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.