USA Poll 12/5

Coaches' Poll

Year: 2021

12/5/2021

Week 14

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	Alabama (54)	1,540	2
2	Michigan (5)	1,474	3
3	Georgia	1,420	1
4	Cincinnati (3)	1,392	4
5	Notre Dame	1,266	6
6	Baylor	1,204	9
7	Ohio State	1,170	7
8	Mississippi	1,134	8
9	Oklahoma State	1,036	5
10	Michigan State	903	13
11	Utah	893	17
12	Pittsburgh	886	15
13	Oklahoma	853	11
14	BYU	792	14
15	Oregon	589	10
16	Iowa	561	12
17	Louisiana	444	21
18	NC State	436	20
19	Wake Forest	389	18
20	Kentucky	327	22
21	Houston	315	16
22	Clemson	252	24
23	Texas A&M	239	23
24	Arkansas	185	25
25	Texas San Antonio	146	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.