USA Poll Final

Coaches' Poll

Year: 2016

1/10/2017

Week 15

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	Clemson (60)	1,500	3
2	Alabama	1,440	1
3	Oklahoma	1,308	7
4	Washington	1,265	4
5	USC	1,263	9
6	Ohio State	1,186	2
7	Penn State	1,123	5
8	Florida State	1,102	10
9	Wisconsin	1,044	8
10	Michigan	986	6
11	Oklahoma State	922	13
12	Stanford	791	16
13	Florida	673	18
14	LSU	641	20
15	Colorado	634	11
16	Virginia Tech	632	19
17	West Virginia	522	12
18	Western Michigan	449	14
19	South Florida	362	22
20	Louisville	338	15
21	Utah	303	23
22	Auburn	230	17
23	Miami	229	NR
24	Tennessee	211	NR
25	San Diego State	102	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.