USA Poll 9/18

Coaches' Poll

Year: 2016

9/18/2016

Week 3

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	Alabama (59)	1,571	1
2	Ohio State (3)	1,482	4
3	Clemson (1)	1,405	3
4	Louisville	1,331	10
5	Michigan	1,302	5
6	Stanford	1,273	6
7	Houston	1,235	7
8	Michigan State	1,156	8
9	Washington	1,065	9
10	Wisconsin	872	12
11	Georgia	847	13
12	Tennessee	805	15
13	Texas A&M	791	20
14	Florida State	742	2
15	Baylor	658	19
16	Florida	598	23
17	LSU	522	22
18	Arkansas	500	24
19	Miami	441	25
20	Nebraska	373	NR
21	Mississippi	166	17
21	TCU	166	NR
23	Utah	155	NR
24	Texas	143	16
25	Iowa	140	11

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.