USA Poll 10/16

Coaches' Poll

Year: 2011

10/16/2011

Week 7

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	Oklahoma (31)	1,426	1
2	LSU (15)	1,410	2
3	Alabama (12)	1,403	3
4	Wisconsin (1)	1,262	4
5	Stanford	1,222	5
6	Oklahoma State	1,173	7
7	Boise State	1,172	6
8	Clemson	1,028	8
8	Oregon	1,028	9
10	Arkansas	931	11
11	Nebraska	775	14
12	South Carolina	765	13
13	Michigan State	690	19
14	Virginia Tech	688	17
14	West Virginia	688	16
16	Kansas State	678	18
17	Michigan	458	10
18	Texas A&M	415	23
19	Georgia Tech	396	12
20	Houston	359	22
21	Illinois	260	15
22	Penn State	253	25
23	Auburn	202	NR
24	Washington	174	NR
25	Arizona State	86	20

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.