USA Poll 11/4

Coaches' Poll

Year: 2012

11/4/2012

Week 10

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	Alabama (59)	1,475	1
2	Oregon	1,399	2
3	Kansas State	1,370	3
4	Notre Dame	1,289	4
5	Georgia	1,218	6
6	Florida State	1,147	7
7	Florida	1,091	8
8	Clemson	1,013	9
9	LSU	998	5
10	Louisville	940	10
11	South Carolina	880	11
12	Oregon State	807	13
13	Oklahoma	800	12
14	Texas A&M	736	16
15	Stanford	705	15
16	Nebraska	513	21
17	Texas	485	22
18	Louisiana Tech	363	23
19	UCLA	333	NR
20	Rutgers	264	25
21	Northwestern	234	NR
22	USC	224	17
23	Mississippi State	186	18
24	Boise State	126	14
25	Toledo	108	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.