USA Poll 10/3

Coaches' Poll

Year: 2021

10/3/2021

Week 5

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	Alabama (63)	1,623	1
2	Georgia (2)	1,562	2
3	Iowa	1,429	5
4	Penn State	1,397	6
5	Oklahoma	1,380	4
6	Cincinnati	1,358	8
7	Ohio State	1,172	10
8	Michigan	1,125	14
9	Oregon	1,000	3
10	BYU	968	15
11	Michigan State	911	16
12	Oklahoma State	798	18
13	Notre Dame	777	7
14	Kentucky	758	23
15	Coastal Carolina	699	17
16	Arkansas	652	11
17	Mississippi	629	NR
18	Florida	464	9
19	Auburn	463	22
20	Wake Forest	441	25
21	Clemson	288	19
22	NC State	257	NR
23	Texas	256	NR
24	SMU	142	NR
25	Arizona State	141	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.