USA Poll 9/17

Coaches' Poll

Year: 2006

9/17/2006

Week 3

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	Ohio State (60)	1,572	1
2	USC (2)	1,493	2
3	Auburn (1)	1,432	4
4	West Virginia	1,359	5
5	Florida	1,282	6
6	Michigan	1,181	13
7	Georgia	1,178	9
8	Texas	1,144	8
9	Louisville	1,106	12
10	Virginia Tech	964	14
11	LSU	911	7
12	Oregon	829	18
13	Notre Dame	814	3
14	Iowa	781	16
15	TCU	621	20
16	Oklahoma	508	11
17	Florida State	459	10
18	Arizona State	397	23
19	Tennessee	376	17
20	California	366	21
21	Boston College	348	25
22	Alabama	314	24
23	Clemson	283	NR
24	Nebraska	167	19
25	Boise State	139	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.