USA Poll 9/19

Coaches' Poll

Year: 2021

9/19/2021

Week 3

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	Alabama (64)	1,616	1
2	Georgia (1)	1,558	2
3	Oklahoma	1,429	3
4	Oregon	1,427	4
5	Texas A&M	1,283	5
6	Iowa	1,263	7
7	Clemson	1,166	6
8	Penn State	1,130	12
9	Cincinnati	1,125	8
10	Notre Dame	1,048	10
11	Florida	1,000	9
12	Ohio State	989	11
13	Mississippi	759	16
14	Iowa State	700	14
15	Wisconsin	589	17
16	BYU	504	23
17	Coastal Carolina	500	18
18	Arkansas	474	24
19	Michigan	423	25
20	North Carolina	411	19
21	Michigan State	344	NR
22	Oklahoma State	300	22
23	Auburn	171	20
24	UCLA	170	13
25	Fresno State	85	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.