USA Poll 10/14

Coaches' Poll

Year: 2012

10/14/2012

Week 7

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	Alabama (59)	1,475	1
2	Oregon	1,414	2
3	Kansas State	1,307	5
4	Florida	1,297	6
5	Notre Dame	1,251	7
6	LSU	1,179	8
7	Oklahoma	1,021	10
8	South Carolina	1,012	3
9	USC	995	9
10	Florida State	919	11
11	Oregon State	839	14
12	Georgia	806	12
13	Clemson	741	13
14	Louisville	695	16
15	West Virginia	677	4
16	Mississippi State	671	18
17	Rutgers	495	19
18	Cincinnati	456	20
19	Texas A&M	397	21
20	Texas Tech	274	NR
21	TCU	272	23
22	Boise State	271	22
23	Stanford	215	17
24	Arizona State	133	NR
25	Michigan	96	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.