USA Poll 9/6

Coaches' Poll

Year: 2005

9/6/2005

Week 1

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	USC (60)	1,547	1
2	Texas (2)	1,462	2
3	Michigan	1,337	4
4	Tennessee	1,268	3
5	LSU	1,203	6
6	Virginia Tech	1,201	7
7	Ohio State	1,178	9
8	Iowa	1,120	10
9	Georgia	1,036	13
10	Florida	1,030	11
11	Florida State	1,022	12
12	Louisville	794	14
13	Purdue	741	16
14	Miami	679	8
15	Arizona State	589	18
16	Oklahoma	545	5
17	California	454	20
18	Boston College	416	22
19	Texas Tech	366	21
20	Virginia	304	23
21	Georgia Tech	300	NR
22	Alabama	245	24
23	Notre Dame	165	NR
24	Fresno State	152	NR
25	Auburn	138	15

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.