USA Poll 11/27

Coaches' Poll

Year: 2011

11/27/2011

Week 13

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	LSU (59)	1,475	1
2	Alabama	1,411	2
3	Virginia Tech	1,291	4
4	Stanford	1,289	5
5	Oklahoma State	1,245	6
6	Houston	1,096	7
7	Oregon	1,041	9
8	Boise State	1,033	8
9	Michigan State	941	10
10	Arkansas	937	3
11	Oklahoma	882	11
12	Wisconsin	852	12
13	South Carolina	833	13
14	Georgia	816	14
15	Kansas State	681	15
16	Michigan	658	16
17	TCU	534	18
18	Baylor	457	20
19	Nebraska	390	22
20	West Virginia	295	23
21	Clemson	286	17
22	Penn State	192	19
23	Southern Miss	173	NR
24	Florida State	86	NR
25	Cincinnati	56	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.