USA Poll Final

Coaches' Poll

Year: 2012

1/8/2013

Week 15

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	Alabama (56)	1,400	2
2	Oregon	1,322	3
3	Notre Dame	1,253	1
4	Georgia	1,213	5
5	Texas A&M	1,171	9
6	Stanford	1,167	8
7	South Carolina	1,064	10
8	Florida State	942	12
9	Clemson	916	13
10	Florida	886	4
11	Kansas State	841	6
12	LSU	775	7
13	Louisville	772	18
14	Boise State	633	15
15	Oklahoma	600	11
16	Northwestern	580	17
17	Utah State	444	20
18	Texas	398	25
19	Oregon State	366	14
20	Vanderbilt	248	NR
21	San Jose State	244	24
22	Cincinnati	186	NR
23	Nebraska	175	21
24	Northern Illinois	156	16
25	Tulsa	110	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.