USA Poll 12/2

Coaches' Poll

Year: 2012

12/2/2012

Week 14

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	Notre Dame (56)	1,470	1
2	Alabama (3)	1,417	2
3	Oregon	1,313	4
4	Florida	1,287	5
5	Georgia	1,216	3
6	Kansas State	1,190	7
7	LSU	1,111	6
8	Stanford	1,047	9
9	Texas A&M	1,039	8
10	South Carolina	947	10
11	Oklahoma	890	11
12	Florida State	853	12
13	Clemson	769	14
14	Oregon State	663	17
15	Boise State	569	15
16	Northern Illinois	495	18
17	Northwestern	444	20
18	Louisville	409	23
19	UCLA	408	16
20	Utah State	334	22
21	Nebraska	328	13
22	Michigan	278	24
23	Wisconsin	115	NR
24	San Jose State	110	NR
25	Texas	97	21

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.