USA Poll 10/19

Coaches' Poll

Year: 2014

10/19/2014

Week 8

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	Mississippi State (36)	1,520	1
2	Florida State (22)	1,493	2
3	Mississippi (4)	1,447	3
4	Alabama	1,293	7
5	Michigan State	1,243	6
6	Auburn	1,210	8
7	Oregon	1,133	9
8	Notre Dame	1,117	5
9	Georgia	1,096	10
10	TCU	996	12
11	Kansas State	909	14
12	Ohio State	856	13
13	Baylor	853	4
14	Arizona State	654	18
15	Arizona	612	17
16	Nebraska	588	19
17	East Carolina	578	16
18	Oklahoma	482	11
19	Utah	371	23
20	Clemson	320	22
21	USC	258	25
22	Marshall	247	24
23	LSU	155	NR
24	Minnesota	147	NR
25	West Virginia	143	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.