USA Poll 10/1

Coaches' Poll

Year: 2006

10/1/2006

Week 5

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	Ohio State (62)	1,574	1
2	USC	1,475	2
3	Auburn (1)	1,418	3
4	West Virginia	1,366	4
5	Florida	1,309	5
6	Michigan	1,277	6
7	Texas	1,178	7
8	Louisville	1,140	8
9	Georgia	1,039	9
10	LSU	1,038	10
11	Oregon	946	12
12	Notre Dame	851	14
13	Oklahoma	706	16
14	Tennessee	673	18
15	Clemson	657	19
16	Florida State	601	17
17	California	588	20
18	Virginia Tech	421	11
19	Iowa	418	13
20	Georgia Tech	347	NR
21	Boise State	344	22
22	Nebraska	326	21
23	Rutgers	192	23
24	Texas Tech	141	24
25	Missouri	136	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.