USA Poll 11/25

Coaches' Poll

Year: 2012

11/25/2012

Week 13

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	Notre Dame (56)	1,469	1
2	Alabama (2)	1,398	2
3	Georgia (1)	1,341	3
4	Oregon	1,277	4
5	Florida	1,265	6
6	LSU	1,124	7
7	Kansas State	1,114	8
8	Texas A&M	1,076	10
9	Stanford	1,008	11
10	South Carolina	972	12
11	Oklahoma	878	13
12	Florida State	829	5
13	Nebraska	765	14
14	Clemson	720	9
15	Boise State	479	22
16	UCLA	445	16
17	Oregon State	410	17
18	Northern Illinois	377	23
19	Kent State	337	25
20	Northwestern	314	NR
21	Texas	312	15
22	Utah State	264	NR
23	Louisville	184	18
24	Michigan	158	20
25	Rutgers	152	19

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.