USA Poll 9/12

Coaches' Poll

Year: 2004

9/12/2004

Week 2

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	USC (47)	1,505	1
2	Oklahoma (11)	1,453	2
3	Georgia (2)	1,371	3
4	LSU (1)	1,315	4
5	Miami	1,312	5
6	Texas	1,209	8
7	Ohio State	1,058	9
8	West Virginia	975	10
9	Florida	887	11
10	California	852	13
11	Florida State	802	6
12	Iowa	782	12
13	Tennessee	717	15
14	Utah	651	16
15	Auburn	643	19
16	Virginia	634	20
17	Michigan	574	7
18	Purdue	525	23
19	Maryland	437	21
20	Fresno State	408	NR
21	Wisconsin	372	22
22	Minnesota	298	24
23	Boise State	272	NR
24	Louisville	128	NR
25	Clemson	111	18

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.