USA Poll 9/30

Coaches' Poll

Year: 2012

9/30/2012

Week 5

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	Alabama (57)	1,472	1
2	Oregon	1,403	2
3	LSU (1)	1,327	3
4	Florida State (1)	1,301	4
5	Georgia	1,227	5
6	South Carolina	1,161	6
7	West Virginia	1,137	7
8	Kansas State	1,050	8
9	Texas	981	10
10	Notre Dame	915	11
11	Florida	883	12
12	USC	784	13
13	TCU	749	14
14	Oklahoma	684	15
15	Clemson	626	16
16	Louisville	524	17
17	Oregon State	453	21
18	Stanford	452	9
19	Mississippi State	422	19
20	Nebraska	415	20
21	Rutgers	206	26
22	Northwestern	202	NR
23	Cincinnati	175	NR
24	Texas Tech	108	NR
25	Boise State	83	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.