USA Poll 9/5

Coaches' Poll

Year: 2004

9/5/2004

Week 1

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	USC (47)	1,502	1
2	Oklahoma (2)	1,452	2
3	Georgia (3)	1,355	4
4	LSU (1)	1,271	3
5	Miami	1,269	5
6	Florida State	1,206	6
7	Michigan	1,150	7
8	Texas	1,107	8
9	Ohio State	1,034	9
10	West Virginia	767	11
11	Florida	745	10
12	Iowa	698	12
13	California	691	15
14	Kansas State	664	13
15	Tennessee	623	14
16	Utah	514	21
17	Missouri	503	17
18	Clemson	501	16
19	Auburn	465	18
20	Virginia	417	19
21	Maryland	302	20
22	Wisconsin	297	22
23	Purdue	270	24
24	Minnesota	256	23
25	Oregon	124	25

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.