USA Poll 10/9

Coaches' Poll

Year: 2011

10/9/2011

Week 6

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	Oklahoma (32)	1,434	1
2	LSU (15)	1,409	2
3	Alabama (11)	1,399	3
4	Wisconsin (1)	1,244	5
5	Stanford	1,232	4
6	Boise State	1,170	6
7	Oklahoma State	1,168	7
8	Clemson	1,046	8
9	Oregon	995	9
10	Michigan	891	11
11	Arkansas	871	12
12	Georgia Tech	805	13
13	South Carolina	678	14
14	Nebraska	671	15
15	Illinois	634	16
16	West Virginia	528	19
17	Virginia Tech	523	17
18	Kansas State	462	21
19	Michigan State	431	20
20	Arizona State	343	24
21	Texas	243	10
22	Houston	200	NR
23	Texas A&M	198	25
24	Baylor	185	NR
25	Penn State	77	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.