USA Poll 12/4

Coaches' Poll

Year: 2011

12/4/2011

Week 14

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	LSU (59)	1,475	1
2	Alabama	1,399	2
3	Oklahoma State	1,367	5
4	Stanford	1,286	4
5	Oregon	1,232	7
6	Boise State	1,128	8
7	Arkansas	1,112	10
8	Wisconsin	1,085	12
9	South Carolina	971	13
10	Kansas State	878	15
11	Virginia Tech	835	3
12	Michigan	789	16
13	Michigan State	735	9
14	Clemson	657	21
15	TCU	631	17
16	Baylor	599	18
17	Houston	542	6
18	Georgia	538	14
19	Oklahoma	437	11
20	Nebraska	402	19
21	Southern Miss	366	23
22	West Virginia	278	20
23	Penn State	189	22
24	Cincinnati	94	25
25	Florida State	68	24

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.