USA Poll 9/9

Coaches' Poll

Year: 2012

9/9/2012

Week 2

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	Alabama (42)	1,455	1
2	LSU (5)	1,380	3
3	USC (11)	1,363	2
4	Oregon (1)	1,292	4
5	Oklahoma	1,203	5
6	Florida State	1,153	6
7	Georgia	1,120	7
8	West Virginia	1,024	8
9	South Carolina	1,008	9
10	Michigan State	950	11
11	Clemson	904	12
12	Texas	730	15
13	Virginia Tech	704	18
14	Kansas State	696	20
15	TCU	649	17
16	Stanford	455	21
17	Florida	452	23
18	Michigan	440	19
19	Notre Dame	398	22
20	Louisville	280	24
21	Arkansas	246	10
22	Wisconsin	151	13
23	UCLA	147	NR
24	Nebraska	135	14
25	Arizona	120	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.