USA Poll 9/7

Coaches' Poll

Year: 2021

9/7/2021

Week 1

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	Alabama (64)	1,624	1
2	Georgia (1)	1,537	5
3	Ohio State	1,491	4
4	Oklahoma	1,397	3
5	Texas A&M	1,334	6
6	Clemson	1,239	2
7	Notre Dame	1,197	7
8	Cincinnati	1,113	10
9	Florida	1,058	11
10	Iowa State	1,057	8
11	Oregon	920	12
12	Iowa	914	18
13	Penn State	872	20
14	USC	828	14
15	Texas	653	19
16	UCLA	538	NR
17	Wisconsin	359	15
18	Utah	294	NR
19	Coastal Carolina	289	24
20	Virginia Tech	274	NR
21	North Carolina	252	9
22	Oklahoma State	243	22
23	Miami	186	16
24	Arizona State	181	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.