USA Poll 10/23

Coaches' Poll

Year: 2011

10/23/2011

Week 8

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	LSU (41)	1,457	2
2	Alabama (18)	1,434	3
3	Stanford	1,327	5
4	Oklahoma State	1,301	6
5	Boise State	1,213	7
6	Clemson	1,174	8
7	Oregon	1,121	9
8	Arkansas	974	10
9	Oklahoma	964	1
10	Michigan State	932	13
11	Wisconsin	867	4
12	Kansas State	827	16
13	Nebraska	798	11
14	South Carolina	730	12
15	Virginia Tech	729	14
16	Texas A&M	520	18
17	Michigan	519	17
18	Houston	507	20
19	Penn State	448	22
20	Arizona State	253	25
21	Georgia	208	NR
22	Texas Tech	180	NR
23	Cincinnati	159	NR
24	West Virginia	155	15
25	Southern Miss	128	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.