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Coaches' Poll

Year: 2019

7/1/2019

Preseason Poll

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	Clemson (59)	1,619	1
2	Alabama (6)	1,566	2
3	Georgia	1,447	8
4	Oklahoma	1,415	4
5	Ohio State	1,368	3
6	LSU	1,218	7
7	Michigan	1,155	14
8	Florida	1,103	6
9	Notre Dame	1,100	5
10	Texas	1,038	9
11	Texas A&M	893	16
12	Washington	834	13
13	Oregon	787	NR
14	Penn State	699	17
15	Utah	642	NR
16	Auburn	606	NR
17	Wisconsin	436	NR
17	UCF	436	12
19	Iowa	343	NR
20	Michigan State	313	NR
21	Washington State	274	10
22	Syracuse	227	15
23	Stanford	200	NR
24	Iowa State	169	NR
25	Northwestern	161	19

Coaches' Poll
Started in 1950.

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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.