USA Poll 9/4

Coaches' Poll

Year: 2012

9/4/2012

Week 1

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	Alabama (37)	1,447	2
2	USC (14)	1,398	3
3	LSU (7)	1,375	1
4	Oregon (1)	1,286	5
5	Oklahoma	1,171	4
6	Florida State	1,144	7
7	Georgia	1,092	6
8	West Virginia	1,032	11
9	South Carolina	943	9
10	Arkansas	929	10
11	Michigan State	868	13
12	Clemson	826	14
13	Wisconsin	719	12
14	Nebraska	652	16
15	Texas	600	15
16	Oklahoma State	595	19
17	TCU	479	17
18	Virginia Tech	476	20
19	Michigan	427	8
20	Kansas State	414	21
21	Stanford	324	18
22	Notre Dame	252	24
23	Florida	204	23
24	Louisville	109	NR
25	Boise State	82	22

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.