USA Poll 10/28

Coaches' Poll

Year: 2012

10/28/2012

Week 9

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	Alabama (59)	1,475	1
2	Oregon	1,391	2
3	Kansas State	1,366	4
4	Notre Dame	1,307	5
5	LSU	1,225	6
6	Georgia	1,149	11
7	Florida State	1,121	10
8	Florida	1,024	3
9	Clemson	976	13
10	Louisville	888	14
11	South Carolina	838	16
12	Oklahoma	758	7
13	Oregon State	684	9
14	Boise State	634	18
15	Stanford	626	19
16	Texas A&M	592	21
17	USC	583	8
18	Mississippi State	569	12
19	West Virginia	326	22
20	Texas Tech	284	17
21	Nebraska	283	NR
22	Texas	200	24
23	Louisiana Tech	191	NR
24	Oklahoma State	166	NR
25	Rutgers	151	15

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.