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Coaches' Poll

Year: 2023

7/1/2023

Preseason Poll

Rank	Rec	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	0-0	Georgia (61)	1,643	1
2	0-0	Michigan	1,510	3
3	0-0	Alabama (4)	1,489	5
4	0-0	Ohio State (1)	1,485	4
5	0-0	LSU	1,294	15
6	0-0	USC	1,228	13
7	0-0	Penn State	1,181	7
8	0-0	Florida State	1,145	10
9	0-0	Clemson	1,078	12
10	0-0	Tennessee	991	6
11	0-0	Washington	941	8
12	0-0	Texas	848	25
13	0-0	Notre Dame	841	18
14	0-0	Utah	839	11
15	0-0	Oregon	820	16
16	0-0	TCU	655	2
17	0-0	Kansas State	440	14
18	0-0	Oregon State	365	17
19	0-0	Oklahoma	320	NR
20	0-0	North Carolina	315	NR
21	0-0	Wisconsin	309	NR
22	0-0	Mississippi	303	NR
23	0-0	Tulane	225	9
24	0-0	Texas Tech	200	NR
25	0-0	Texas A&M	196	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.