USA Poll 10/21

Coaches' Poll

Year: 2012

10/21/2012

Week 8

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	Alabama (59)	1,475	1
2	Oregon	1,403	2
3	Florida	1,329	4
4	Kansas State	1,326	3
5	Notre Dame	1,221	5
6	LSU	1,164	6
7	Oklahoma	1,084	7
8	USC	1,014	9
9	Oregon State	974	11
10	Florida State	948	10
11	Georgia	850	12
12	Mississippi State	800	16
13	Clemson	788	13
14	Louisville	720	14
15	Rutgers	637	17
16	South Carolina	598	8
17	Texas Tech	571	20
18	Boise State	407	22
19	Stanford	401	23
20	Michigan	264	25
21	Texas A&M	229	19
22	West Virginia	173	15
23	Ohio	132	NR
24	Texas	109	NR
25	Wisconsin	104	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.