USA Poll 9/20

Coaches' Poll

Year: 2020

9/20/2020

Week 2

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	Clemson (44)	1,196	1
2	Alabama (1)	1,119	2
3	Oklahoma	1,019	3
3	Georgia	1,019	4
5	LSU (1)	962	5
6	Florida	899	6
7	Notre Dame	896	7
8	Auburn	766	9
9	Texas	764	8
10	Ohio State (2)	741	NR
11	Texas A&M	651	10
12	North Carolina	563	11
13	Penn State	536	NR
14	Miami	500	18
15	UCF	497	13
16	Cincinnati	416	14
17	Wisconsin	411	NR
18	Oklahoma State	315	12
19	Michigan	287	NR
20	Memphis	269	15
21	Tennessee	266	17
22	Minnesota	178	NR
23	BYU	177	22
24	Virginia Tech	167	19
25	Louisiana	158	21

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.