USA Poll 10/7

Coaches' Poll

Year: 2012

10/7/2012

Week 6

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	Alabama (58)	1,474	1
2	Oregon (1)	1,411	2
3	South Carolina	1,345	6
4	West Virginia	1,296	7
5	Kansas State	1,216	8
6	Florida	1,165	11
7	Notre Dame	1,152	10
8	LSU	961	3
9	USC	940	12
10	Oklahoma	872	14
11	Florida State	819	4
12	Georgia	761	5
13	Clemson	759	15
14	Oregon State	691	17
15	Texas	663	9
16	Louisville	628	16
17	Stanford	577	18
18	Mississippi State	558	19
19	Rutgers	410	21
20	Cincinnati	365	23
21	Texas A&M	208	NR
22	Boise State	197	25
23	TCU	194	13
24	Louisiana Tech	131	NR
25	Iowa State	73	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.