USA Poll 10/11

Coaches' Poll

Year: 2020

10/11/2020

Week 5

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	Clemson (55)	1,543	1
2	Alabama (5)	1,478	2
3	Georgia	1,424	3
4	Notre Dame	1,332	5
5	Ohio State (2)	1,194	6
6	North Carolina	1,175	9
7	Oklahoma State	1,056	10
8	Penn State	1,005	8
9	Florida	928	4
10	Cincinnati	906	11
11	Texas A&M	801	20
12	Miami	795	7
13	BYU	759	15
14	Auburn	735	13
15	Wisconsin	687	14
16	Oregon	646	17
17	Tennessee	505	12
18	SMU	464	21
19	Michigan	454	19
20	Iowa State	372	24
21	Louisiana	280	23
22	Kansas State	276	NR
23	Virginia Tech	156	18
24	USC	147	NR
25	Minnesota	146	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.