USA Poll 1/12

Coaches' Poll

Year: 2020

1/12/2020

Week 16

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	Alabama (60)	1,500	9
2	Ohio State	1,432	2
3	Clemson	1,349	3
4	Texas A&M	1,317	NR
5	Notre Dame	1,247	14
6	Oklahoma	1,219	4
7	Georgia	1,146	5
8	Cincinnati	1,031	22
9	Iowa State	997	NR
10	Northwestern	919	NR
11	BYU	796	NR
12	Florida	766	7
13	Indiana	762	NR
14	Coastal Carolina	649	NR
15	Iowa	606	19
16	Louisiana	596	NR
17	North Carolina	538	NR
18	Liberty	476	NR
19	Oklahoma State	456	NR
20	Texas	402	NR
21	USC	400	23
22	Miami	275	NR
23	Ball State	157	NR
24	San Jose State	100	NR
25	Buffalo	51	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.