USA Poll 10/22

Coaches' Poll

Year: 2017

10/22/2017

Week 8

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	Alabama (64)	1,600	1
2	Penn State	1,520	2
3	Georgia	1,463	3
4	TCU	1,385	4
5	Wisconsin	1,343	5
6	Ohio State	1,244	6
7	Clemson	1,173	8
8	Miami	1,172	7
9	Oklahoma	1,084	9
10	Notre Dame	951	16
11	Washington	931	12
12	Oklahoma State	926	11
13	Virginia Tech	818	14
14	South Florida	730	13
15	NC State	683	17
16	Washington State	636	18
17	UCF	561	20
18	Michigan State	560	19
19	Auburn	455	21
20	Stanford	367	22
21	USC	321	10
22	West Virginia	211	23
23	LSU	178	25
24	Texas A&M	151	24
25	Michigan	121	15

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.