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Coaches' Poll

Year: 2014

7/1/2014

Preseason Poll

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	Florida State (56)	1,543	1
2	Alabama	1,455	8
3	Oklahoma (3)	1,382	6
4	Oregon (1)	1,314	9
5	Auburn	1,271	2
6	Ohio State (1)	1,267	10
7	UCLA	1,085	16
8	Michigan State	1,050	3
9	South Carolina (1)	1,009	4
10	Baylor	965	13
11	Stanford	955	11
12	Georgia	905	NR
13	LSU	833	14
14	Wisconsin	654	21
15	USC	627	19
16	Clemson	535	7
17	Notre Dame	509	24
18	Arizona State	358	20
19	Mississippi	346	NR
20	Texas A&M	266	18
21	Kansas State	257	NR
22	Nebraska	228	25
23	North Carolina	175	NR
24	Texas	143	NR
25	Washington	142	NR

Coaches' Poll
Started in 1950.

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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.