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Coaches' Poll

Year: 2015

7/1/2015

Preseason Poll

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	Ohio State (62)	1,598	1
2	TCU (1)	1,487	3
3	Alabama (1)	1,452	4
4	Baylor	1,365	8
5	Oregon	1,260	2
6	Michigan State	1,230	5
7	Auburn	1,103	23
8	Florida State	1,057	6
9	Georgia	1,026	9
10	USC	1,014	21
11	Notre Dame	883	NR
12	Clemson	838	15
13	LSU	727	NR
14	UCLA	697	10
15	Mississippi	668	19
16	Arizona State	577	14
17	Georgia Tech	573	7
18	Wisconsin	470	13
19	Oklahoma	407	NR
20	Arkansas	377	NR
21	Stanford	365	NR
22	Arizona	299	17
23	Missouri	229	11
24	Boise State	190	16
25	Tennessee	166	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.