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Coaches' Poll

Year: 2016

7/1/2016

Preseason Poll

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	Alabama (55)	1,585	1
2	Clemson (7)	1,524	2
3	Oklahoma	1,398	5
4	Florida State (1)	1,351	14
5	Ohio State	1,321	4
6	LSU	1,241	17
7	Stanford	1,149	3
8	Michigan	1,062	11
9	Notre Dame	1,034	12
10	Tennessee (1)	960	23
11	Michigan State	901	6
12	Mississippi	792	9
13	Houston	668	8
14	TCU	649	7
15	Iowa	579	10
16	Georgia	525	24
17	USC	468	NR
18	Washington	454	NR
19	Oklahoma State	426	19
20	North Carolina	422	15
21	Baylor	383	13
22	Oregon	361	20
23	Louisville	331	NR
24	UCLA	296	NR
25	Florida	245	25

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.