USA Poll 11/20

Coaches' Poll

Year: 2011

11/20/2011

Week 12

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	LSU (59)	1,475	1
2	Alabama	1,413	3
3	Arkansas	1,349	6
4	Virginia Tech	1,242	7
5	Stanford	1,222	9
6	Oklahoma State	1,156	2
7	Houston	1,075	10
8	Boise State	982	11
9	Oregon	933	4
10	Michigan State	928	12
11	Oklahoma	826	5
12	Wisconsin	808	13
13	South Carolina	806	14
14	Georgia	803	15
15	Kansas State	671	17
16	Michigan	618	18
17	Clemson	587	8
18	TCU	494	19
19	Penn State	455	21
20	Baylor	302	NR
21	Georgia Tech	203	23
22	Nebraska	165	16
23	West Virginia	158	24
24	Notre Dame	156	25
25	Virginia	154	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.