USA Poll 9/4

Coaches' Poll

Year: 2006

9/4/2006

Week 1

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	Ohio State (41)	1,534	1
2	Texas (14)	1,475	2
3	USC (4)	1,436	3
4	Auburn (2)	1,272	11
5	West Virginia	1,248	7
5	Notre Dame (2)	1,248	4
7	Florida	1,112	8
8	LSU	1,096	9
9	Florida State	1,074	18
10	Oklahoma	1,019	5
11	Georgia	899	14
12	Louisville	820	13
13	Michigan	786	15
14	Virginia Tech	700	16
15	Iowa	647	17
16	Miami	605	NR
17	Tennessee	579	23
18	Clemson	570	NR
19	Penn State	459	19
20	Oregon	458	20
21	Nebraska	313	22
22	TCU	265	21
23	California	194	12
24	Texas Tech	178	25
25	Alabama	156	24

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.