USA Poll 9/4

Coaches' Poll

Year: 2018

9/4/2018

Week 1

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	Alabama (59)	1,571	1
2	Clemson (3)	1,498	2
3	Georgia	1,414	4
4	Ohio State (1)	1,398	3
5	Oklahoma	1,312	5
6	Wisconsin	1,249	7
7	Auburn	1,219	10
8	Notre Dame	1,077	11
9	Stanford	909	13
10	Penn State	893	9
11	Washington	800	6
12	USC	766	15
13	Michigan State	733	12
14	Virginia Tech	730	17
15	LSU	724	24
16	TCU	699	16
17	West Virginia	612	20
18	Mississippi State	531	18
19	Boise State	362	22
20	UCF	339	23
21	Miami	277	8
22	Michigan	227	14
23	Oklahoma State	225	25
24	South Carolina	189	NR
25	Florida	138	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.