USA Poll 11/20

Coaches' Poll

Year: 2006

11/20/2006

Week 12

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	Ohio State (63)	1,575	1
2	USC	1,444	4
3	Michigan	1,428	2
4	Florida	1,407	3
5	Arkansas	1,302	6
6	Notre Dame	1,285	5
7	West Virginia	1,151	7
8	LSU	1,081	9
9	Wisconsin	1,053	10
10	Texas	994	11
11	Louisville	944	12
12	Boise State	862	13
13	Auburn	825	15
14	Oklahoma	795	16
15	Georgia Tech	655	18
16	Rutgers	641	8
17	Virginia Tech	655	19
18	Boston College	540	20
19	Nebraska	353	22
20	Wake Forest	343	14
21	Tennessee	326	23
22	California	265	17
23	BYU	256	24
24	Clemson	174	25
25	Hawaii	97	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.