USA Poll 10/12

Coaches' Poll

Year: 2014

10/12/2014

Week 7

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	Mississippi State (26)	1,490	6
2	Florida State (31)	1,489	1
3	Mississippi (5)	1,436	4
4	Baylor	1,392	3
5	Notre Dame	1,292	5
6	Michigan State	1,129	8
7	Alabama	1,121	7
8	Auburn	1,111	2
9	Oregon	1,017	11
10	Georgia	1,013	10
11	Oklahoma	1,005	9
12	TCU	824	12
13	Ohio State	737	15
14	Kansas State	710	16
15	Oklahoma State	610	18
16	East Carolina	518	19
17	Arizona	502	13
18	Arizona State	471	20
19	Nebraska	433	21
20	Stanford	344	22
21	Texas A&M	269	14
22	Clemson	244	25
23	Utah	161	NR
24	Marshall	153	NR
25	USC	125	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.