USA Poll 10/18

Coaches' Poll

Year: 2020

10/18/2020

Week 6

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	Clemson (52)	1,540	1
2	Alabama (8)	1,494	2
3	Notre Dame	1,351	4
4	Georgia	1,295	3
5	Ohio State (2)	1,254	5
6	Oklahoma State	1,149	7
7	Penn State	1,059	8
8	Florida	1,002	9
9	Texas A&M	1,001	11
10	Cincinnati	989	10
11	Miami	890	12
11	BYU	890	13
13	North Carolina	725	6
14	Wisconsin	698	15
15	Oregon	683	16
16	SMU	618	18
17	Michigan	507	19
18	Iowa State	485	20
19	Kansas State	395	22
20	Virginia Tech	373	23
21	Minnesota	209	25
22	NC State	200	NR
23	USC	186	24
24	Coastal Carolina	150	NR
25	Marshall	139	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.