USA Poll 10/21

Coaches' Poll

Year: 2018

10/21/2018

Week 8

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	Alabama (60)	1,548	1
2	Clemson (2)	1,488	3
3	Notre Dame	1,409	4
4	LSU	1,352	5
5	Michigan	1,228	7
6	Georgia	1,207	6
7	Texas	1,146	8
8	Oklahoma	1,075	10
9	Ohio State	1,030	2
10	UCF	1,008	9
11	Florida	968	12
12	West Virginia	794	13
13	Washington	729	14
14	Kentucky	689	17
15	Washington State	633	23
16	Penn State	606	16
17	Texas A&M	583	18
18	Iowa	447	22
19	Wisconsin	430	19
20	South Florida	390	20
21	Oregon	383	11
22	NC State	222	15
23	Stanford	180	24
24	Utah	107	NR
25	Miami	95	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.