USA Poll 10/23

Coaches' Poll

Year: 2016

10/23/2016

Week 8

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	Alabama (63)	1,599	1
2	Michigan	1,486	4
3	Clemson (1)	1,485	3
4	Washington	1,434	5
5	Louisville	1,321	7
6	Baylor	1,194	8
6	Nebraska	1,194	9
8	Ohio State	1,137	2
9	West Virginia	1,007	13
10	Texas A&M	979	6
11	Wisconsin	963	10
12	Florida	821	12
13	Boise State	776	14
14	Florida State	767	15
15	Oklahoma	692	16
16	Utah	664	18
17	Auburn	552	24
18	Tennessee	523	19
19	LSU	424	23
20	North Carolina	388	21
21	Western Michigan	352	20
22	Navy	243	25
23	Colorado	242	NR
24	Houston	144	11
25	Virginia Tech	116	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.