USA Poll 9/24

Coaches' Poll

Year: 2006

9/24/2006

Week 4

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	Ohio State (59)	1,570	1
2	USC (2)	1,489	2
3	Auburn (2)	1,441	3
4	West Virginia	1,357	4
5	Florida	1,294	5
6	Michigan	1,239	6
7	Texas	1,155	8
8	Louisville	1,105	9
9	Georgia	1,079	7
10	LSU	963	11
10	Virginia Tech	963	10
12	Oregon	854	12
13	Iowa	802	14
14	Notre Dame	758	13
15	TCU	647	15
16	Oklahoma	615	16
17	Florida State	509	17
18	Tennessee	504	19
19	Clemson	477	23
20	California	452	20
21	Nebraska	289	24
22	Boise State	257	25
23	Rutgers	124	NR
24	Texas Tech	81	NR
25	Boston College	78	21

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.