USA Poll Final

Coaches' Poll

Year: 2021

1/11/2022

Week 15

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	Georgia (62)	1,550	3
2	Alabama	1,488	1
3	Michigan	1,398	2
4	Cincinnati	1,346	4
5	Ohio State	1,279	7
6	Baylor	1,275	6
7	Oklahoma State	1,197	9
8	Michigan State	1,066	10
9	Notre Dame	1,028	5
10	Oklahoma	994	13
11	Mississippi	909	8
12	Utah	877	11
13	Pittsburgh	742	12
14	Wake Forest	609	19
15	Kentucky	592	20
16	Clemson	528	22
17	Houston	510	21
18	Louisiana	502	17
19	NC State	453	18
20	Arkansas	354	24
21	Oregon	336	15
22	BYU	284	14
23	Iowa	276	16
24	Utah State	142	NR
25	Texas A&M	133	23

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.