USA Poll Final

Coaches' Poll

Year: 2011

1/10/2012

Week 15

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	Alabama (59)	1,475	2
2	LSU	1,404	1
3	Oklahoma State	1,367	3
4	Oregon	1,290	5
5	Arkansas	1,188	7
6	Boise State	1,162	6
7	Stanford	1,106	4
8	South Carolina	1,084	9
9	Michigan	925	12
10	Michigan State	912	13
11	Wisconsin	911	8
12	Baylor	775	16
13	TCU	710	15
14	Houston	673	17
15	Oklahoma	610	19
16	Kansas State	602	10
17	Virginia Tech	574	11
18	West Virginia	554	22
19	Southern Miss	429	21
20	Georgia	345	18
21	Cincinnati	248	24
22	Clemson	237	14
23	Florida State	205	25
24	Nebraska	144	20
25	BYU	79	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.