USA Poll 11/18

Coaches' Poll

Year: 2012

11/18/2012

Week 12

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	Notre Dame (56)	1,469	3
2	Alabama (2)	1,386	5
3	Georgia (1)	1,348	4
4	Oregon	1,227	1
5	Florida State	1,199	6
6	Florida	1,166	7
7	LSU	1,062	8
8	Kansas State	1,056	2
9	Clemson	1,029	9
10	Texas A&M	994	10
11	Stanford	934	13
12	South Carolina	853	11
13	Oklahoma	798	12
14	Nebraska	654	14
15	Texas	593	15
16	UCLA	590	16
17	Oregon State	563	17
18	Louisville	453	18
19	Rutgers	408	20
20	Michigan	289	23
21	Oklahoma State	258	24
22	Boise State	243	22
23	Northern Illinois	149	NR
24	Mississippi State	99	NR
25	Kent State	86	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.