USA Poll 11/28

Coaches' Poll

Year: 2005

11/28/2005

Week 13

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	USC (53)	1,540	1
2	Texas (9)	1,497	2
3	LSU	1,397	3
4	Penn State	1,369	4
5	Virginia Tech	1,290	5
6	Ohio State	1,162	7
7	Notre Dame	1,153	6
8	Oregon	1,127	8
9	Auburn	1,049	9
10	Miami	990	10
11	UCLA	946	11
12	West Virginia	883	12
13	Georgia	827	13
14	Alabama	731	14
15	TCU	705	15
16	Texas Tech	605	17
17	Louisville	532	18
18	Florida	506	19
19	Boston College	436	20
20	Wisconsin	367	22
21	Michigan	250	23
22	Fresno State	186	16
22	Florida State	186	21
24	Clemson	158	NR
25	Georgia Tech	80	24
26	Iowa	76	NR

Coaches' Poll
Started in 1950.

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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.