USA Poll 11/20

Coaches' Poll

Year: 2016

11/20/2016

Week 12

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	Alabama (63)	1,575	1
2	Ohio State	1,482	2
3	Clemson	1,420	5
4	Michigan	1,404	4
5	Washington	1,297	7
6	Wisconsin	1,279	6
7	Oklahoma	1,215	8
8	Penn State	1,077	10
9	Colorado	1,052	12
10	Oklahoma State	947	13
11	Louisville	864	3
12	USC	774	19
13	Florida	744	18
14	Florida State	735	15
15	Nebraska	719	17
16	Auburn	663	16
17	West Virginia	489	9
18	Western Michigan	448	21
19	Boise State	414	23
20	Utah	374	11
21	Houston	349	NR
22	Texas A&M	315	22
23	Washington State	132	20
24	Tennessee	129	NR
25	North Carolina	118	24

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.