USA Poll Final

Coaches' Poll

Year: 2017

1/9/2018

Week 15

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	Alabama (62)	1,550	4
2	Georgia	1,485	3
3	Oklahoma	1,414	2
4	Clemson	1,329	1
5	Ohio State	1,304	5
6	Wisconsin	1,223	6
7	UCF	1,202	10
8	Penn State	1,134	9
9	TCU	1,013	13
10	USC	904	7
11	Notre Dame	888	15
12	Auburn	885	8
13	Miami	769	11
14	Oklahoma State	757	17
15	Washington	706	12
16	Michigan State	682	19
17	Northwestern	543	20
18	LSU	424	14
19	Stanford	354	16
20	Mississippi State	349	23
21	South Florida	285	24
22	Boise State	242	25
23	NC State	198	NR
24	Memphis	149	18
25	Virginia Tech	96	22

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.