USA Poll 12/20

Coaches' Poll

Year: 2020

12/20/2020

Week 15

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	Alabama (61)	1,525	1
2	Clemson	1,456	3
3	Ohio State	1,379	4
4	Notre Dame	1,317	2
5	Texas A&M	1,297	5
6	Cincinnati	1,204	6
7	Oklahoma	1,104	10
8	Indiana	1,056	7
9	Georgia	1,021	9
10	Florida	981	11
11	Coastal Carolina	911	12
12	Iowa State	838	8
13	Northwestern	724	14
14	North Carolina	699	15
15	BYU	657	16
16	Iowa	583	17
17	Louisiana	556	18
18	Miami	471	19
19	USC	388	13
20	San Jose State	360	25
21	Oklahoma State	211	22
22	NC State	207	23
23	Liberty	206	21
24	Texas	198	24
25	Tulsa	191	20

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.