USA Poll 9/23

Coaches' Poll

Year: 2007

9/23/2007

Week 4

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	USC (44)	1,481	1
2	LSU (8)	1,438	2
3	Florida (4)	1,347	3
4	Oklahoma (4)	1,336	4
5	West Virginia	1,260	5
6	California	1,137	8
7	Texas	1,103	6
8	Ohio State	1,092	9
9	Wisconsin	1,026	7
10	Rutgers	901	11
11	Boston College	881	12
12	Oregon	878	13
13	Clemson	767	14
14	Virginia Tech	585	17
15	Kentucky	545	23
16	Georgia	516	21
17	Hawaii	479	18
18	South Florida	451	24
19	Penn State	397	10
20	Missouri	369	25
21	South Carolina	335	15
22	Nebraska	209	22
23	Michigan State	167	NR
24	Alabama	154	20
25	Arizona State	151	NR
25	Purdue	151	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.