USA Poll 9/2

Coaches' Poll

Year: 2014

9/2/2014

Week 1

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	Florida State (57)	1,541	1
2	Alabama	1,432	2
3	Oklahoma (2)	1,407	3
4	Oregon (2)	1,358	4
5	Auburn	1,289	5
6	Michigan State	1,141	8
7	Ohio State	1,114	6
8	Georgia (1)	1,108	12
9	Baylor	1,018	10
10	Stanford	999	11
11	UCLA	964	7
12	LSU	912	13
13	Texas A&M	895	20
14	USC	713	15
15	Notre Dame	605	17
16	Arizona State	502	18
17	Mississippi	438	19
18	Nebraska	384	22
19	Wisconsin	373	14
20	Kansas State	370	21
21	South Carolina	272	9
22	Missouri	189	NR
23	North Carolina	168	23
24	Clemson	155	16
25	Texas	150	24

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.