USA Poll 10/16

Coaches' Poll

Year: 2006

10/16/2006

Week 7

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	Ohio State (63)	1,575	1
2	USC	1,476	2
3	Michigan	1,430	5
4	West Virginia	1,411	4
5	Texas	1,314	6
6	Louisville	1,205	7
7	Auburn	1,122	10
8	Notre Dame	1,068	8
9	Tennessee	1,060	9
10	Florida	1,045	3
11	California	981	11
12	Clemson	896	12
13	Georgia Tech	703	15
14	LSU	682	16
15	Oregon	660	18
16	Nebraska	596	20
17	Boise State	575	19
18	Arkansas	532	23
19	Rutgers	415	24
20	Oklahoma	354	22
21	Boston College	321	25
22	Wisconsin	288	NR
23	Iowa	172	13
24	Georgia	139	14
25	Texas A&M	111	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.